<span style="color: #00bf00">Damon looked at the necklace, the red eye's eye on it. "Eugh! Nikolai's sick...." Then it dawned on him. "Wait a minute, Nikolai may be dead?" He picked up Faylaph and ran back the way Shiro had come. </span><br/><span style="color: #404040">"!!" Wolfgang ran after him. "Dammit, Damon, Come back here!" he yelled.</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">"No! Nikolai needs a proper burial!"</span><br/><span style="color: #404040">"What if there's Zygotes? You can't defeat them with that small dagger!"Wolfgang tried.</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">"Don't underestimate Faylaph!" Damon countered.</span><br/><span style="color: #404040">Wolfgang caught up to him, grabbing him by one of his arms. "Dammit, stop!"</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">Damon stopped. "I'm losing precious time here!"</span><br/><span style="color: #404040">"WILL YOU JUST LISTEN?!?" Wolfang yelled.</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">Damon calmed down. "I'll listen."</span><br/><span style="color: #404040">"You're already too late. By this time, Nikolai will have been found by Zygotes. There won't be anything left to bury, and they'll go after *you* next."</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">Damon smiled. "You're always talking sense into me. Even as a student of yours, I was always making brass decisions, and you'd talk me out of them."</span><br/><span style="color: #404040">"I know. It's what I'm best at."</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">"Still...." Damon said, tears starting to well up in his eyes.</span><br/><span style="color: #404040">"Let's go back. You can explain in full why you feel that way there.</span><br/><span style="color: #00bf00">"Right." They started back, actually not having gone very far.</span>