The certainty came over Janius as the fight dragged on that Argrei was indeed the better fighter. His confidence in Julan prevailing shrank, though he knew Julan still had a chance.

Janius noticed Argrei's trap an instant before Julan's sword was grasped. The spear going into Julan's leg caused Janius to show perhaps more pain on his face than Julan was. However, Julan did not give up. At that point, Janius half-turned his head to Kaleeth, still keeping his eyes on his son.

"Kaleeth," he murmured. "He's got your resilience. You know it better than I do. I need you to judge when to call for Julan to forfeit."

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Rhazii at least stopped to give Ahnasha another moment. He only responded with a few small nods before he turned and left.

Ahnasha had all the time she could have wanted in the bandit camp. Enough to heal her wounds, butcher and dispose of the bodies, loot whatever could have been useful, and even look over the last mementos the bandits left behind to hint at the lives they were leading. Rhazii's clothes and her bag of potions were no longer present amongst her belongings when she went to retrieve them, but Rhazii did not return before she would decide to go back to the inn. Fendros probably would have returned by the time she got back.