"Perhaps - I'm not from Beowulf, after all."<br/><br/>He took the offered hand with a smile, his grip the carefully measured restraint of a heavy-worlder, curiously light for a man his size, and set off down the hallway out of the observation room. Remembering the route one took was a very valuable skill to learn in the forests of Sphinx, and there had been few enough turns and twists in the path for Fredrico to be able to retrace their steps back to the entrance hatch.<br/><br/>