Fangorn nods to himself, mulling over the facts I have presented him as he runs a finger absently over the rim of his pint glass, chewing the inside of his cheek with a visible frustration. Kal's emotions, however, are not so straight forward. Although his face remains an insufferable mixture of calm and blank thought, his heart pounds, tearing this way and that as the beat rises and falls with that same, unmistakable feeling I have witnessed so many times before. Kal is afraid.