Flights and champions? Bariyan relaxes; he draws the axe back. All right, sure, it might be some sort of cunning demon ruse -- but he highly doubts it. They're already razing the damn forest and killing dragons left and right. He doubts that trickery would come into their agenda right now.

At the same time, Caliborn does not seem like a pleasant individual.

"I think there's rather more to be done than just listening," Bariyan says, swinging his axe over his shoulder and moving off, ignoring Caliborn's suggestion about going back up the tree. "Is that really all you plan to do?"