"I will worry anyway," she grumbled softly. "I cannot help that, now." She pinpointed him with an intense, glittering stare that ought to have sliced him clean through. "You will come back because if you do not, I will be most displeased."

It mattered not what had passed between them, he was a good friend and his lost would not be tolerated easily.

"But you have Mara Jade," Arha said quietly. "I suspect she is more backup than a room full of troops. Perhaps I shall not worry overmuch, save for the fact that I am not there to back the both of you up myself."