The variant dragon scoffed at the idea of not wanting her, before asking if she left, who would be around to show him how to be a real dragon? No other born dragons were around for him to watch and ask questions, after all.<br/><br/>The two casters spent the trip back discussing the idea, just bouncing thoughts as they tried to think of something, but sadly Devaguea ran out of ideas after a couple hours, lacking the experience that Nyrissa had and the training the rest of the mages they had access to had. Once back at the capital, Nyrissa went off to talk shop with Allison, Stroon having relocated to study Vordekai's tomb for a few months.<br/><br/>The fighting with the trolls was far worse than the ones with the regular trolls back when they kingdom was first starting, simply because these brutes were smart enough to not blindly charge the nearest clumps of soldiers. Devaguea twice had to teleport back when some of the trolls proved they were very competent with their simple but effective bows, but eventually they managed to turn the group back, several of the ice trolls killed for no gains other than the wild animals they had eaten. Devaguea, for one, was glad to head back home at that point, though he suspected his winter would be spent joining up with patrols to chase ice trolls.