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: "Hmm...I'm not sure I have, really. I know I've made mistakes in the past, and probably will make more in the future, but I don't think that's quite what you mean. Wanna talk about it?"

Gregor put the parcel away as he spoke, giving Chris his full attention.

Gregor's eyebrows narrowed. Chris wasn't acting at all like his usual self.

: "It's the necklace I got for Charlotte, but that's not important right now. What's wrong with you? You look like you've seen a ghost or something."

Gregor jumped in shock at the sound of a familiar voice, before reason reasserted itself and he recognized Chris.

: "Whoa! Could you PLEASE not do that in the future? I just about had a heart attack!" He calmed down quickly enough, as he was more startled than angry.

: "Sorry. Where have you been, Chris?"

Grifen peered out of the forest she was hiding in at the sound of shouting. Reasoning that the other green-haired girl wasn't a bandit, she waved cheerily.

: "Howdy, and thanks for the timely assistance! If y'all can clear a path I'll have what's-his-name up in a jiffy!"

Gregor excused himself from dinner early and sat alone in the sleeping area. When he was reasonably sure no-one was watching, he removed a small parcel from his bag, wrapped in parchment and tied up with string. As he weighed it in his hand, he could hear the faint clinks of the chain inside.

When he first ordered the necklace, the only thing in his mind had been giving it to Charlotte as a token of affection. However, with the campfire confession and the earlier discussion the two had, it suddenly occurred to him that perhaps the trinket could be used for something else. A necklace wasn't exactly traditional...but did that really matter?

He wished that he could talk to someone about this. Someone who could sympathise due to going through the same thing.

It should be noted that thanks to Grifen's PS, vulneraries restore a full 10 HP to downed allies, and 15 to ones on their feet. If she can get Roderick up, he should be able to survive at least one hit.

Otherwise, we can shoot for evadehax once more. If Grifen moves to attack someone, could Fezz make it into the woods and kill the axeman?

I don't like it because there isn't a single thing we can do about it, other than "pray to the evadehax gods". Even in the last chapter in FEF1, there was a plan for survival. Some of it relied on/was made easier by evadehax, but we stuck to the plan, healed people as they needed it, and we all pulled through.

In this case however, there is no plan. Just luck.