Dragoncrest Cliffs Where we see enough to follow

Hei, Ephraim replied after a long nervous beat. Why had he let Tux talk him into this again? Too late to back out now. He clucked his tongue anxiously against the roof of his mouth, then began to speak in tumbled, rushed sentences that spilled out without any order at all. Apologies for his performance in the fight and his subsequent withdrawal, mostly.

They spoke of many things, and then they parted ways, with Ephraim none the wiser of what was next to come.