Li nodded out a goodbye to Triple Threat, a slip of paper listing the elixirs they needed wedged in his palm. He watched as they made their way down the main road, Jeanne nudging Sylvie's shoulder teasingly while Azhar walked while whistling, blissfully unaware.
The image of the three strolling down with their armor and weapons let Li remember a past where he had done just the same, adventuring and questing with friends from a different world. He had liked that life, but at the end of the day, it didn't compare with how fulfilling it was to be able to tend the earth around him.
