“He is,” Kire said immediately. If there had been some bad blood between them, she would have seen it in his face. This was something else. “He said you two weren’t on good terms. I didn’t press him on the matter. I left him at the foot of the hill, past your wards,” she added, hazarding a guess about the aura she had sensed here and in Ziad. “I could fetch him, if you’d like. He is very stubborn, but you probably already know that.”