"Yes. He is deceiving you, His magic contains traces of illusion spells. It is my guess he is well versed in dark magic. Curses, to be exact. And, the traces specifically contain usage of a doppelganger spell. Your sources may have been fooled." Jasper laughed as Tristina said this.<br/><br/>"Oh I know full well the kind of magic this man uses. So if the man my source saw was a doppelganger where is the real man?" Jasper grabbed their things and tied them onto the horses saddle bag. He grabbed Tristina and put her up on the horse. He untied the horse and led it away from the river, once they were back on the path he hopped onto the horse behind Tristina. He grabbed the reigns and slid into place behind Tristina the saddle was small so they were pressed up against each other.<br/><br/>"We will head for the nearest town to the north. Then you can figure out where he is. I hope you are used to riding a horse." Jasper kicked the horse into a gallop headed north. The sun was bright and warm slowly clearing away the morning mist. The forest was quite with just the slight song of birds singing in the air. Jasper let his mind wonder while they rode thinking of the events of the last day. Eventually his mind drifted to this morning in the river. Tristina was actually quite lovely he thought. He wondered what his luck was that he found someone who could nullify his curse and it turned out it was a lovely woman who could use magic talk about luck.<br/><br/>"So Tristina when you woke up yesterday did you think things would end up like this? Fate certainly has a funny way of bringing people together doesn't it." Jasper laughed he wondered if Tristina would consider him tying her up and kidnapping her as fate. He realized that the motion of the horse was bumping him into her funny how he hadn't noticed it before know. He moved his sword so the hilt wouldn't bump into her but that ended up causing him to slide closer her.