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Jayden gave the chocobo some food and walked back to the unconscious man. He tended to the mans wounds but there was nothing more he could do. He would simply have to wait till the man regained consciousness. As Jayden stared into the flames of the fire, the man stirred. Jayden quickly turned to the man and helped him get up.

The man stared at Jayden for a while and spoke after a while.

"Your a fine ranger", he said, staring at Jayden.

"As are you a fine swordsman", replied Jayden.

The man stared into the flames until Jayden spoke.

"What is your name?", asked Jayden.

"Clief...", replied the man.

"Well Clief, I'm Jayden. Pleased to meet you."

Jayden thrust his hand forward for Clief to shake. Clief stared at the hand, then Jayden and finally shook the hand.

"My thanks to you Jayden", said Clief. "If you had not appeared to help me against Kontari and his men, I don't know what would've happened".

"Its alright", replied Jayden.

Clief felt a bit lighter then usual. Then he realised his swords were gone.

"Where ar..", Clief started but Jayden stopped him.

"There by the fire".

Clief looked beside the fire and surely enough, his Steel sword and Crystal sword were lying sword side-by-side.

Clief felt relieved now. He turned to and saw the chocobo eating.

"So where are you heading?" asked Clief, still staring at the chocobo.

"To a cave", replied Jayden. "In the east. I'm looking for my friend Nari and...."

"And?" said a puzzled Clief.

"Ah...Nothing. It's nothing", Jayden said quickly, not wanting to talk about Seri and what she had said.

"I see....", said Clief. He could tell Jayden was keeping something from him but decided not to bother him about it.

"Well", said Clief. "We should get some sleep".

He lay back down.

"Night Jayden".

"Night Clief". And as Jayden started to lay down, he started wondering about Clief's Crystal sword.