Brand growled with irritation at the man's conceit.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Do I mention my twenty years of training under some of the best fighters, scholars, and adventurers of the mortal world?<br/><br/>No...let him bask in his hubris for now...and see how his military background helped him against the other natural disasters that were surely on their way.</span><br/><br/>"This way," Brand said, spotting a familiar tree-and-rock formation.  "The woman and her little girl were this way."