" ' Lead me to the shard' my ass..." Xion muttered, hearing the tail end of waht Gandrian was saying about him burning the forest down as he took to the wing again and soared up high enough not to be spotted from the trees or the ground and began to make loftily, lazy circles around the forest peering down to see where things were.  He didn't see much though with the trees all in the damn way, Xion could make out pathways and various tangles of plants that seemed to be blocking the convenient way to the center of the so-called "maze" But he couldn't see into it even with his superior vision like there was some kind of magical field over the entire place that partially blocked out sensing anything on the ground from overhead.   That must really piss off the eagles and other raptors...   "Dammit, I can't find any clue of where to go other than to continue along straight ahead and follow the winding pathways." He said irritably and continued orbiting the forest they were getting into, growing increasingly more frustrated and annoyed with the area's ability to fool his eyes and magical senses. He culd feel the pulsations of the magic under him but couldn't pinpoint where they were coming from, just an irritating buzz of energy. It was like having someone ringing a gong in your ears every 5 minutes or so, you couldn't hear anything else for a while other than that blasted "ringing" sound.<br/><br/>"Damn this all to hell I'm going to burn down a good clearing in this forest just because it's annoying me now." He growled and took a sharp inhalation and found a ripe place full of saplings and young trees and circled down and prepared to 'bring the rain' in the form of a torrent of metal melting fire.  With that, a square mile of forest would ignite in boulder-meltingly hot fire coming from the sky as Xion had his fun. Maybe he could get lucky and 'accidentally' catch that damn Gandrian in it 'unknowingly'. Yeah that'd be a hoot and it'd get him some peace and less irritation for a while at least.  But it wasn't really that likely to happen, the dragon had marked where the human was and was avoiding torching that area to avoid pissing off their mutual contractor.  But maybe he'd roast a good community of elves along the way? That would be helpful in the end: no bloody arrows pecking down at you from the trees whenever you stopped to take a piss.<br/><br/>Once he was done with his fun, he'd blur backto a human form and slip down through the trees to find Gandrian as the Dark King had told him to stay with the annoying moron.  "You know, nobody wants to see that." he said , alighting and sitting on the branch above the knight's head. "And yes I did burn a square mile of trees, I think I even got a few elves in it." He chuckled, sensing Gandrian's irritation.  Why shouldn't he irritate him? Gandrian was just as much of a pain in the ass as Xion was half the time so fair's fair in the end.  But It also meant that they probably wouldn't get along when a situation required it with the dragon's impulsive nature of destruction conflicting with the elf's nature of "taking it carefully".