Grace felt her jaw drop. He couldn't be serious!<span style="font-style: italic">This</span>was the person the gods had sent to help her avert tragedy? Not to judge a book by its cover, but he really didn't seem like the heroic type. In fact, he didn't look like he wanted to help at all. More like this was just some inconvenience he'd been dragged into. "Pardon me," she started slowly, "I mean no disrespect, but are you sure the gods sent<span style="font-style: italic">you</span>to aid me...?"