"Tavern wench," Excalibur said as he approached Jet.

Jet seemed irked by the way she was addressed.  She crossed her arms and gave the knight an icy stare that he seemed not to notice.

"I'm looking for a dangerous monster that was spotted heading in this direction," Excalibur said a he pulled out a paper and held it out in front of Jet.  "Have you seen it?"

Jet briefly glanced at the paper before returning her stare to the knight.  "No," she stated coldly.

"Please take a better look tavern wench," he told her as he pushed the paper close to her face.  "This vile beast killed my valiant steed.  He was steadfast in the face of danger, but even his bravery could not save him from the evil fiend's attack.  By the time I realized the danger it was already too late.  I shall think of his courage the next time I see the one responsible for my magnificent horse's death.  I will avenge his memory if it's the last thing I do!"

Excalibur quickly wiped his eyes that seemed slightly damp after his long speech. 

"Get out," Jet replied through gritted teeth. 

"Yes I know dear tavern wench you fear for your safety, but fear not I shall protect you as I could not protect my horse," he responded, as Jet grew more and more furious with each word.

As Excalibur continued to assure Jet that he would keep her from harm, Eimi stood up and began walking towards them.  "What are you doing?" Galaxar whispered.

"Tavern wench…" the knight began as Eimi interrupted him.

"Hey that dragon on the paper kind of looks like you," Eimi stated as she held up Galaxar to get a better look. 

With that Excalibur quickly turned around and opened his mouth to shout something, but before he could get a breath out Jet pulled a large hammer out from behind the counter and walloped him on the head.  "Don't call me tavern wench again!" she said angrily as he slid to the floor unconscious.

"Wow, you're pretty violent," Eimi said sounding rather surprised.

"He had it coming," Jet told her as she walked around the counter and began to drag the knight's body towards the back door.

"I can't believe you did that!" Galaxar squealed in a high-pitched voice.  "If he hadn't of insulted Jet so many times we would have been in trouble."

"But I wanted to see what was on the paper," she whined.  "How was I to know he was looking for you?"

"Well did you have to hold me out where he could see me and pronounce it to everyone when you did realize it?" he replied.

"Sorry" she said as she sulked.

Galaxar squirmed out of her hands and flew towards the door.  "Anyway, lets get as far away from here as we can before he comes to.  He's going to have one nasty headache when wakes up and he'll be looking to take it out on us."

"Us?" Eimi said sounding puzzled as she followed Galaxar out the door.  "What did I do?"

"Being with me is enough for him, I'm sure," he replied.  He glanced at a poster of himself on the building across the street as he exited the tavern. "He'll probably have your picture posted all over the town too.  He'll probably end up telling everyone some story about a demon cat that's conspiring with an evil dragon and we've come to eat all their children."

"Why would we want to do that?  Children don't taste good," she said sounding like she knew from experience.

"How would you know?"  Galaxar responded before adding,  "Never mind I don"t think I want to know."

"So where are we headed?" Eimi asked as she immediately forgot his question.

"That's a good question." He replied.  "We can't stay at the tavern or any where else in town and we can't go back to my cave because he's sure to look there.  That only leaves one option, we'll have to hang out in the woods for a few days until he gives up and goes home, but first we will need to get supplies."  With that Galaxar turned and headed down an alleyway leading further in town.

"Yay, camping!" Eimi shouted cheerfully as she followed behind the dragon.

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