"You're right.  I owe you for a lot, including my ability to differentiate between the ground and the sky.  Sometimes, without you, I think I might just accidentally start falling up.  It's a wonder I lived as long as I did before I met you."<br/><br/>He grins good-naturedly for a moment, before he hears the rest of what she has to say.<br/><br/>"But Nara, if I'm not allowed to call you a mouth breather, then you've got to quit attaching creepy pet names to me, too.  I'm not a witch, I'm not a warlock, I'm not a necromancer, and I don't deal with demons, devils, ghosts or gods.  I am me.  You're going to scare people with that witchy warlock talk."<br/><br/>There... maybe that would settle it.  Glancing about curiously, Xelise chuckles, and then murmurs to Nara.  "Any bets on how many of those people on the road ahead of us made it?  When it started to all crumble down around us, you took off like a bat out of hell and dragged me with you for the first bit...  A lot of people don't react as quickly as you or I, though...  Poor fools."