<hr/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">!!!GM POST!!!</span></div><hr/><br/>As the man walked towards the door there was the click of a hammer and a gunshot.  All the other thugs stopped and looked at the one that had fired and then turned all of their guns bock on rose.  They all took careful aim as she was pinned holding their boss.  It seems the butler had been intent on protecting the girl, and had intercepted the projectile.<br/>"Let him go!" the one that had fired demanded as the men started spreading around her to get to her back,<br/><hr/><br/>As Jack left the room Valoren groaned in his head, but said nothing as he moved with all the speed he could muster to almost vanish from one place and seemingly appear in front of the bullet.  As the bullet hit him there was a spurt of blood and he collapsed apparently quite dead, and there he lay having followed the desires of the one he was thinking of contracting with.