Chain Reactions

"Well..." Rui scratched his head. "I can't take full credit for that. Kane actually played a pretty important role as well."

"Really?" Fiona raised an eyebrow at Kane.

"My man doesn't lie." Kane smirked, turning to Fiona. "We haven't met in like, what, three or four years?"

"We would have met a year ago if you'd won the preliminary contest." She retorted.

"Boo. No thanks, I'm good." Kane waved her away.

"Alright alright." Rui intervened. "Let's all go catch some rest. We shouldn't rely on potions when we don't have to because that reduces the probability that we'll be able to use potions when we need to."

It was the norm to have sleep taken care of as soon as a mission was completed since that was the only it could be guaranteed that a sleep cycle wouldn't clash with the deployment of the Martial Apprentices on a mission. Rui had learned to become more aware of his sleep cycles since he could no longer merrily stay awake for extended periods of time.