Thasseldar nodded at Clark and called Hanson in.

"What?" Hanson said as he came into the room.

"Let this guy go off wherever he wants. I have what I want."

Hanson stared a bit. "This guy stabbed you in the leg and has the pretence of an assassin. Let him go?"

Thasseldar stared at him. "'This guy' has failed at his duty, and I don't see the reason for unnecessary bloodshed. If there's a next time, then yes, he's dead on the spot. But for now... I have other things. Such as figuring out the cause of the rather unstable dimensional ties around here."

The last part went over Hanson's head. He nodded while grumbling and freed Clark as Thasseldar walked out of the hotel, just a few blocks away from the fish invasion...