He backed off with a growl, he disliked being touched, or being around others for that matter, and those bronzes had killed any of his control over his temper that had remained after the trial. He snarled something that might have been offensive had it been understandable, before continuing down the path toward the lair.<br/><br/>Once he got the message back, what had been regained of him controlling his temper left, and he stalked into the lab, and sat down at the edge of a small pool in the room. He snapped the name of the fire giant leader, and then watched the pool ripple, and slowly change to show a fire giant town, and several semi-familiar giants talking to a VERY familiar face. He studied the image for a moment, looking for a good spot to teleport in. After a good twenty minutes or so going over the area, he nodded and dismissed it, heading toward his hoard to get a gem or three from it and to dump the bag in it.<br/><br/>He paused at the edge of the hoard, staring at a statue before druping the gems. He stared at it with a look that should have destroyed it, and then calmly reached forward and plucked the statue from his hoard. He walked over to one corner of the hoard room, and just as carefully dropped the statue into the corner, facing away from his hoard, before turning and leaving the room with the three gems he had collected. That done, he stopped in the center of his lair, before he began sketching a basic teleport circle, though more for the mental exercise than the need for it, waiting for the gold dragon to return.