Depths of Glacier Peak

Jack met their gazes with his own. He had a feeling that it had all been too easy. His fate was already mixed up, so he wasn't too surprised to find a beast waiting for them inside.

He knew that the beast was likely the strongest on the mountain and it would be the most difficult thing they had ever faced, but Jack still wanted to enter that cave. 

A part of him still believed in Daruun, who told him to seek out the neutral gods. And since Daruun knew that Jack's party would come here for Rydel, Jack assumed that there had to be a way to accomplish their goal. Daruun wouldn't send his own champion to his death before the champion's purpose was fulfilled.

'We'll have to enter the cave with the utmost secrecy. Normally, I would go alone with the blessed bracer, but I'd be dead meat if I was caught."

...roooaarr…