Back on the wall with Kilgon and the others. Kaitlyn was filling him in on the situation.
"So, the lad has gone off to train with the dragons." Kilgon said. "Maybe he will finally learn how to fight! Ha!"
"Zell can fight!" Kaitlyn said.
"Lass, he just punches things really hard, that is not fighting." Kilgon explained. "A real fight is when two opponents are locked in a struggle for life and death, and they must outsmart, out maneuver, and out last the other. The lad doesn't do that, he just punches it. Tell me I am wrong."
"Well!" Kaitlyn said.
"Exactly you cannot." Kilgon said. "So, we are to go and free Tarm from the clutches of the evil queen? It's not like they had any ideological differences, I fail to see how anything short of killing the royals and the nobility would change anything."
"We can't just go murder other kingdoms!" Samantha protested. "We need to bring them over to our side through a peaceful resolution, not violence."