What ever political mumbo jumbo that had to be taken care of, after the beat down I just gave Shao Tie, I shamelessly left to Baeki to handle. For some reason I felt really anxious and hurried, like I had to learn really fast, and get the hell out of here, back home, and into the arms of wives and the presence of my children. Something was terribly wrong somewhere, and I could feel it in my gut.
I made my way back into the library, and Adamas flew towards me in his diminutive form. He perched on my shoulders like a bird and said to me.
"there are a million ways you could have won that fight without getting injured, 4386 ways that you would have ended that fight before it began, and another 2580 ways that you could have ended it in the first five minutes."
I looked at him with a blank expression on my face, and then he fidgeted a little, looking from left to right as he grumbled at me.
