The amazing thing was how fast the situation had escalated, and Jack had a feeling he was either missing something or the day had just spontaneously decided to be crazy, and that was why Jack was in a net.<br/><br/>Getting trapped in the net had happened quickly. A bunch of men had quite simply walked through the foliage, and Jack had just assumed they were here to bathe in the spring, or peep, or both. They had not spoken any threats or made any demands, they just simply tossed a net over Jack, who explained calmly and rationally to them that it was the red-eyed lass they were after.<br/><br/>Then he was not sure about the exact sequence of events, but something had frightened Aris, and either that had made him attack one of the assailants, or him attacking was what had made Aris frightened.<br/><br/>No, before he had attacked he had come with them quietly. He was less offended at them taking him prisoner than he was thankful they used simple devices like nets, rather than try to stab his throat the second they saw him. And then Aris had protested and Jack had broken the nose of the man who tossed the net on him, and here Jack was, being beaten into submission by at least four men with cudgels.<br/><br/>He would have removed the net but they hit him on his arms, which would normally only hurt for a second before he healed the blunt-force trauma, but Valaria had left him with great, bloody gashes and those wounds had yet to heal.<br/>"Angel... smite... them..." he grunted in between hits with the cudgels. The attackers seemed to go to great lengths not to use lethal force. It would have been a great deal quicker to just stab them all, but they were gentle assailants, and when Jack eventually stopped trying to get back up from being hit and they stopped hitting him, which was when Jack decided to get back up after all and tackled another attacker to the ground. The pummelling of him restarted, while Jack broke another nose. He planned on pretending to be knocked unconscious, only to get back up for a second time, when one of the men hit him very hard at the back of the neck with a light cracking sound, and knocked Jack unconscious.