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"Oh, an' I guess I'll watch your back in the fight." Pointing a thumb at the elk-man. "Maybe get this guy to watch your ass, too."

There was an expedition going on soon? Drannec had been writing a report on some of the trees nearby— sadly, it seemed that many of them were essentially the same as trees on Earth— for some time, but he should have heard of this. Gris, why didn't you tell me about the expedition? I could finally find some fauna to study!

I did tell you, you dope. You just pushed me off to compare tree bark, or something.

Ah. He didn't remember doing that, but it sounded right. Oftentimes such things went by in a blur.

"I'd be happy to help you on that expedition. It'd be more helpful to study new parts of the Aether, instead pf staying where it's relatively safe, after all."