Mictain took a step back as he saw Adam approaching. He could probably claim that he wouldn't have been able to break off the fight anyway. It was at least partly true, even -- of all people he'd ever met, War was the only one he wasn't sure he could win in a one-to-one combat.

"I had nothing to do with it," he said, a bit defensively. He really, really didn't want to be kicked out again.