Tiberius sat down on a log, looking at the empty fire pit they had created earlier. The battle must have snuffed it out of course, so when Laina went to go gather kindling the knight got up as well. He didn't want to make it completely obvious but he watched her leave into the forest. He grimaced thinking of all the wrong doings that could happen to a girl in the wilds but remembered that a little bit a go she had killed a deer and brought it back by herself. He relaxed only slightly, none of them could afford any unneeded risks. He sighed in relief when she came back with sticks.

She dropped them in front of the fire, then invited anyone to actually start it. [color=gold]"Fear not, I shall have a fire going momentarily."[/color]

Tiberius grabbed the kindling and placed it over the remains of the previous fire, then grabbed a flint and his knife. He began hitting them together, trying to get some sparks going. Every time the stone and blade collided, sparks flew in small dazzling array of lights before abruptly being silenced forever. At long last, his attempts at starting the fire were successful when the smallest of sparks managed to ignite some dry grass. Smoke began to billow upwards and Tiberius began to blow ever so gently, coaxing the small flame into taking the shape of the fire they needed. He set it down in the middle of the larger sticks and before long, a fire began to burn. They would need more firewood eventually, but it could wait for now.

After successfully creating the fire, Tiberius sat back and watched the flames take shape. He took thought for a moment, his eyes only reflecting the fire. It flickered up into the darkness, wanting to touch the one thing it could not. Like a lover scorned, it only wanted to give the moon it’s tender warmth, but the moon was indifferent. It simply did not care about the fire.

A lovely voice brought him back from his moment of thought and he looked over to see the woman from earlier was sitting next to Zenovia. So she had decided to stay after all, good. Had he been a bit excessive with her, probably but it was for the good of the group and he was in charge of protecting them after all.

He looked at her and said, [color=gold]"Forgive me, I don't think I ever asked you what your name was? I'm Tiberius Longshadow. The girl you are sitting next to is Zenovia."[/color]