[h3]Sir Yanin Glade[/h3]
	The older nightwalker simply reiterated that he was a Knight of the Will, and the knighthood was not extinct because he was there. That was not what Yanin was asking; he had already figured Freagon was intent on remaining steadfast on as much.
	Instead of verbally elaborating in detail, the human knight simply shook his head, once, slowly, and asked again: [color=f7976a]"[i]How[/i] are you here?" [/color]
	
	If someone were to observe Yanin very keenly at that moment, they might have noticed that he ever so slightly lifted - just enough to clear gravel -  and shifted the balance of his halberd when Freagon reacted to [i]something[/i], only very slowly easing it back down after nothing further had happened. (Jordan himself, being mostly focused on Jaelnec, hadn't spotted Freagon's reaction.)

	'Soon' was imprecise. Perhaps the older nightwalker was being obtuse, perhaps he genuinely did not know. [color=f7976a]"Soon enough that it couldn't wait till the evening." [/color]One might expect such a rushed action before a battle one was not expecting to survive. There were plenty of records of people doing just that, granting titles effectively in advance just so their apprentices or servants would [i]have[/i] one before they ultimately perished - or, in a stroke of extreme yet tilted luck, the subordinate lived, but the master died. It wasn't it. Not [i]quite.[/i] [color=f7976a]"And it isn't the bandits [i]in particular.[/i]"[/color] 
	Freagon could realistically dispatch the bandits entirely by himself, with comparatively little risk to his own person. The man had implicitly confirmed as much himself. [i]Not today. Not tomorrow.[/i] Any direct connection between Freagon and the bandits seemed far-fetched at this point. They were, for the most part, incidental.
	[i]Time is running out.[/i] Before [i]what[/i] exactly happened? [i]It isn't just the two of us anymore.[/i] So who were the others? The two deigan? The half-palanter? Lady Bor and her little town? Him and his squire? [color=f7976a]"If your understanding of the future pertains us or those people in meaningful way, I'd rather hear everything sooner rather than later. Feels like we might have to deal with the consequences, and I don't particularly like surprises."[/color]