"We both know this Gollus? Do not speak as to what I know, especially now, that I am so clearly different than I was before." Was he being foolish, with his boasts, telling them something they should have to figure out for themselves? He knew he was, but he didn't care. He wanted to get back at Gollus and make him pay for his beating him. "As for tricks Gollus, no tricks, just my power against yours, unless you are suddenly afraid of me?"

"I am not afraid of you Klaeb, never. Nothing could have changed so much to make me afraid of you. You will always be weak and pathetic, how you held onto your wife as long as you did makes no sense at all to me."

"Shut up love, he is not the same man, look at his eyes. They are different, there is a determionation there. Do not disregard it dearest."

"His listening to you would not have changed..." He smiled, more to himself, than either of them, as they surely didn't want anything to do with him smiling. "Forgive me, his listening to you before, that would have changed everything. But it is too late for that. I have power now, and I am going to use it."

She shot Klaeb a dark look, then smiled as she snuck a peek at Gollus, who was unexpectedly still. "What are you waiting for Gollus, knock that smugness off his blasted face."