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Kate's return has worried Will, he knows her world has great and complicated troubles and he hates that there's only so much he can do.

So he's outside at the range firing arrow after arrow into the targets, its restful to hear the thunk, thunk of arrow into straw.

Later perhaps he'll move to the peals but for now, its arrow after arrow as he works to keep his temper in check.

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"It is not the usual two nights and a slap on the wrist that Ramon Salazar tends to get," Teja says.

"Aye, 'e's just a dangerous man."

"So is Ramon," Teja points out.

"They both are, been 'untin' by men like Urquhart."

"Your enemies have sent such men after your friend Robin and the rest of you?" Teja asks.

"Aye, got a price on me 'ead."

"That would draw a man like Urquhart, indeed," Teja says.

"Oh aye, too many o''is sorts in the world."

"He is in no world any longer, though," Teja says. "It has been found that he is dead."

"Good, probably died in 'is world an deserved it."

Teja looks at Will, as if struck by a thought, and shakes his head.

"What is it?"

"I have never thought asked about his first death enough," Teja says. "He said somebody called 'the fox' did, by pushing him off a scaffold. But why?"

Pause.

"I am sure I may learn much about him, if I get him to speak of that. A man's death will always be helpful in understanding him."

"'rhaps they were fightin' an scaffold's a good place for shootin'."

Teja nods. "He might have been shooting down, or trying to, and the fox -- whoever that may be -- stopped him," he ponders.

"Aye, probably did since 'e'd na go down easy."

"I wish I could speak to that fox," Teja says. "It must be a very tenacious and clever man indeed that took down Urquhart; he is a pain in the neck, and very stubborn."

"Aye, tis what makes 'im so dangerous."

"It is ever dangerous when a man stops for nothing," Teja says.

"An kills for coin."

"He has no cause he believes in, but his own gain," Teja says.

"Just coin."

"I know not," Teja says, "if the bar would work with us, to take away his gains from his tab; he said the money he was given for killing me is in there."

A good thought that might be worth investigating. If Urquhart may not keep the money, would he do it again?

"Wouldna 'urt to ask."

"I shall do so," Teja says. "There must be a way to impress upon the man that he must not try and kill people in the bar."