"A gift for a friend," smiling with my eyes best I could.

"Friend," he nodded.

Gracefully I turned my back to him, without any hesitation or thought that he would harm me. Depending on the misadventures this new position grants me, I may need to lure enemies here. Breadcrumbs were leading to the labyrinth.

Emerging from the dense concave, greeted by a wall of black, the night spoke 'You have returned.' The sentence rang in my mind with the voice of Grey Mason. ...