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Tam looks up in surprise. "Oh... you want to go for ten maybe... Hope, I can't believe it... he's actually asking for ten."

Behind him Bez makes a strangled gasp that sounds suspiciously like laughter.

"Ye said the relationship stands... I'm still yer guardian... and well... I ask ye... that little visual response ye made... was it not done in a temple.. in the presence of a woman and a priest or was it not?" says Tam quietly with a tiny touch of heat in his voice.

"Perhaps because we were too stunned to make a response." says Shar sharply. "And if he is truly yer guardian, isn't his place to correct ye, not ours?"

Bez snorts through hs nose. "Semi.fallen... no one here by that name... I am indeed a fallen one... I just didn't fall as far as my comrades... there is another on this plane as I... Veritu.... though I fear he is madder than a hatter... as his partner did die in the fall. As for what I think... he's right, of course... but then he's lying in a fairly strategic pose right now and I'm rather vulnerable...."

Shar's burst of muffled laughter makes all the lions shake their heads.

Mica sighs and tells the young healer it might be best if she lets the men have men talk and go have breakfast before they stop serving it altogether.

"Now that is a first..." laughs Tam impressed.

"Can he really do that... fragment himself like that... or are those dopples..." wonders Bez out od curiosity.

Tam smiles. "That should answer yer question..." says Tam quietly shaking his head. "But I'm not sure whether or not I should laugh or get angry.... what school did ye call on to achieve that spell, Kero?" he asks with a hefty sigh.

"Very well.... ye show me later how fire magic creates an illusion and I'll let ye off... I'm curious as to how ye pulled it off." he replies with a yawn. He counts down the minutes and turns Kero loose right at the five minute mark. Bez has fallen back to sleep and the others are all talking by the fire. Tam himself is not exactly tired, but neither does he have the strength or energy to join them, so he snuggles down into the bed, keeping a certain distance between him and the panther, and merely listens to the conversation in progress.

"Tam's tail waves him over and he looks up at the cub. "I just need yer reassurance ye weren't using ye know what... and as I'm a bit out of it... if ye can tell me truthfully ye weren't, then I'll say nothing more." says Tam softly with a yawn. "But it also has me curious. I know about mirages... formed from heat, but those defy control beyond their natural limits. Yer dopples were a little too pat... so how did ye do it, I'd like to know. Maybe I can do the same with my light magic... the illusions I make with that tend to fall apart with the angle they are viewed from....."