Xie Lian breathed in and let it out slowly, helping him steady the beating of his racing heart. He really had been having too much fun!

"As I've said, in my younger days I had been taught the Arts. I just have not had much of an opportunity to utilise them as of late." As he was speaking Xie Lian was already on the move and heading for the now open door. Like Maglor he was afraid of it closing and them having to do it all over again. Or, worse, being stuck a second time with a whole new kind of task.