Aurican was just irritated over the whole scene. Such waste, he thought. Such needless violence. The ambush honestly reminded him a little too closely to the time when Blayze, Burll, and Smelt died: without warning and without provocation. He grunted in his affirmative, changing back to his human form, to better protect himself from the cold.

"Just once," he couldn't help but grumble. "I wish that this world would stop trying to rip my head off when I am sent here to save it. That's all I ask."