Arthur smiled again and relaxed, "You're welcome to stay...long as you want. Or until you get tired of me" he laughed a little.

Wouldn't take long, no one stuck with him long, but the company would be welcome after being on his own, apart from Buell anyway.

He returned to his stew. "What about you anyway? What you been up to while I was dead?" he asked "Anymore of them uhh Naeg...The thing that bit your leg." he said, giving up on trying to recall what the medicine seller had called the cannibal let alone pronounce it.