The next morning after waking up, James discovers the girl who had shared Jiron’s bed with him the night before had already left. Jiron is lying there sleeping so peacefully, he almost doesn’t want to wake him up. Almost. He and his girlfriend had awakened James up twice during the night and he’d found it incredibly difficult to fall back to sleep while ‘that’ was going on in the bed next to him.

He gets up out of his bed and walks over to Jiron’s with a mischievous smile upon his face. Grabbing hold of his mattress, he upends it, spilling Jiron onto the floor with a thud.

After hitting the ground, Jiron gets to his feet quickly with a knife in his hand. Looking around, he sees James standing there with the mattress still in his hand. “Get up,” James tells him. “We’ve got a ship to catch.”

“What did you do that for!” he yells, anger in his eyes.

“For keeping me awake all night,” he says as he replaces the mattress.

The anger quickly disappears and a grin takes its place, “Sorry about that. She was a randy one, she was.”

Returning to his bedside, he begins to get dressed. Jiron follows suit.

James notices him putting his new clothes inside his pack and asks, “Taking them with you?”

Jiron glances over to him and nods, saying, “Yeah, I think Tersa would like to see me in them. You?”

Shaking his head no, he replies, “Green just isn’t my color.” Jiron just laughs.

After they’re both dressed, they shoulder their packs and leave the room. James leaves the box of slugs, he already has enough, what with his belt filled as well as a small pouch of them within his pack. Out in the hallway, they turn toward the stairs and go up to Miko’s room. Finding it empty, they go on down to Nate’s room where they find him saying goodbye to his friend.