Telling Quinara about the stranger

"Hey Runt you feeling ok?" Quinara asks as I wake up, she's sat directly where the stranger had been the night before. Clearly waiting for me to get up, it was touching that she cared but her positioning only served to remind me about the events of the previous night. "Yeah I'm doing ok..." I hesitate unsure if I should tell her about last night, "ok someone visited me last night" I admit to her, she looks puzzled but lets me continue. "He looked like a normal guy but he said he brought me back from the dead after the incident on the lake. Normally I wouldn't believe him but as he left he produced a flame in his hands then threw it on the fire" I say explaining everything. To say Quinara looked skeptical was an understatement, she huffs then says "another one of your dreams?" She asks I can see in her eyes how much she hopes it was just a dream, I shake my head "it couldn't be a dream, I asked him to hurt me" I say confidently causing Quinara to raise an eyebrow "n-not like that, he just flicked a stone at me, but I felt it. It was real."

Quinara remains silent her eyes focused on me "ok so you're not feeling ok then" she says standing, it was clear she had no confidence in my story. "Look I swear it was real" I say to her as she shakes her head in dismissal, her attitude stung but I couldn't deny that I did sound like a crazy person right now. Quinara eventually lets out a heavy sigh after packing up the camp in silence and turns to me "I'm sorry I shouldn't be so short with you. You had a tough day yesterday, your heads just a bit out of it and that's not your fault." I want to argue back about what happened but there is no point, I wasn't convincing her about a man who could bring people back from the dead and make fire from nothing.

Thankfully once I drop the subject we continue as normal walking along the dirt road on the way to the next city on our adventure, it's quiet and a pleasant day so it's easy to forget about the troubles and to just have light conversation. "So runt, what's the biggest animal you reckon you could kill in a fight. Bare hands no weapons allowed" Quinara asks me as we take a break for lunch after my most recent training. "I don't know, maybe a small cat" I suggest giving a conservative estimate, Quinara nudges me "come on runt, you can do better than that. Apart from anything I've been training you for over a month, surely you could beat a dog now". I laugh "maybe, dogs are quick though, I accompanied Lord Baxter on a hunt once and those dogs of his took off so quick... But what about you?" I ask, Quinara holds up a finger while she chews her food, I wait for her to swallow "a bear" she says with no hesitation, "a bear???" I repeat in disbelief, now I had no doubt in Quinara's abilities but a bear? "Yeah I could take a bear. They're slow to turn, I'd dart behind it and grapple round its neck. From there I could **** it out and once it's passed out I could finish it off. And if that fails I could dodge till it wears itself out, then go in when its tired" she says, it was clear this was something she had thought about before. As much as I doubted the idea that anyone could kill a bear in a unarmed fight, I did have to admit if anyone could do it, it would be Quinara. "Right runt you ready to make a move? We should be at Gryant within the next three days if we keep up the pace" Quinara announces brushing crumbs of her pants and getting up.