Aiden's face was dark, and not just because of the color Brisa put on him either. There was a mixture of anger and sadness in his eyes that he tried to hide from the others....the rain helped. While helping Brisa carry Argurios, he didn't say anything about Jatan. He noticed he was gone when he turned back around from Argurios. He never saw what happened. He had just left him for a second, and then he was gone....Just like Sarah. an assault of harsh realities kept spinning in his mind. 

('You can't protect anybody. Argurios is injured, Brisa was surrounded, Jatan is gone, Sarah is gone. You [i]murdered[/i] the boarwoman. Your sister and father would be ashamed, but they are gone as well, aren't they!? You couldn't do anything but watch your friends die in front of you at the last town. If it wasn't for the monk's [i]sacrifice[/i] you would all be dead. You are weak. You can't protect anything! YOUR'RE TOO WEAK!')

It was enough to drive even a battle-hardened man insane, let alone a young man. Normally, when morale was down, he would be able to make some sort of joke or smile through it, like just before this fight started and with Argurios a moment ago. But he could no longer do it. He couldn't laugh this off.

He got his injured friend under the boat and handed Brisa his tool-kit pouch. "In it is some needle and fishing line you can use to seal the wounds. That fire finger of yours should be good enough to heat the small knife in there to cauterize the wounds. I'll be back," he said as he stepped just outside of the tent to confront the other boarman.

He kept the blade with him and approached the boarman. When he was at a close yet safe distance from him he looked him for a moment. He raised his makeshift spear and snapped it in half, throwing it to the ground. He wasn't sure how he was going to say this.

"I know it probably means nothing to you for me to say this now... but I'm sorry for what I did. We were scared and it was a cowards move. You have every right to hate me, even kill me. By the code of my father and his father, I would put my life in your hands, but I can't leave my friends. I need to do what I can to protect what sort of family I have left. If you wish to reap revenge on my head, I won't stop you, but at least let us find what those dark monsters did to our village first." he paused for a bit to see if the man would say anthing back. "My name...is Aiden Folkvar."