"Good. We're both fighters and we're not going to let our fates be anything but then," he assures her, and there's a fierceness to his tones that proves he means it. He has lived a while but, for him, it's only a beginning and he doesn't plan on spending it alone. Nor does he plan on spending it without her.

"I think we're going to do some research and hit them with some things people haven't seen in a few centuries maybe. If they're going to be this blatant, it's time we fight fire with fire," he says, not that he doesn't think they have been but this was on a whole new level.

"I just want to make sure we get here there, and in one piece and sane," he says with a sound that could well be a sigh. "My ideas are pulling from hellfire and necromancing but I suppose I can drawback from that if you want."

He might be teasing. He very well might not be. He may be making things up.