The trio were now only a day's walk away from the citadels' entrance.

Even though Chrys was still chained and destined to be ransomed and killed. He considered himself fortunate to be in the presence of a READER.

Deep down in his heart he knew if he made a good impression on her, when the time came she would use her powers of a god to protect him.

He approached the winged goddess and bowed, "Patiah my divine beauty, how can I serve you? Oh McCaw'd you are radiant today!"

 His puppy like demeanour made her blush and chuckle. "You are so sweet, no I am fine Chrys" Patiah could not keep the smile from her face.

Qiiesha kicked at him with her boot, "bosh off you cretin! I don't care how sweet you act, I still want my money"

"Why are you so mean to him anyway?" asked Patiah

"It's on account of him showing up in my life that has ruined me." stated Qiiesha angrily.

Chrys interjected, "first of all: it seemed to me that the life you were living wasn't necessarily a happy one; secondly it wasn't ME that destroyed your bar, but those two rhino bastards, whom I might add were greedily chasing after the same bounty you are after now."

"Why exactly is there a bounty on your head in the first place? What did you do?" Inquired Patiah

"I am kinda shocked that you aren't aware considering you are a READER", Chrys replied with a hint of suspicion.

"Well, I'm not a 13-18 year old boy, my tastes are a little more sophisticated"

He mumbled under his breath, "like mafia smut"

"What was that?"

"I said I'd like to tell ye all about it" he was sweating now. This was his chance to endear himself to a READER god and his mouth wouldn't stop being sarcastic.

"Well it's a sad story really, I was living my best life as the hero and figurehead of an army. Different beautiful girls at my beck and call everyday" he audibly sighed at the fond memory. 

" Chona did all the work, he was my servant. Anyway this reaper thing showed up and  began killing all my men. Until two sexy deer babes showed up, damn they were so hot!"

Qiiesha cleared her throat

"Don't zap me! I'm not done! Anyway I had a brilliant plan to lure the thing to a place called Labrador, on Earth. I fought it single handedly protecting all the women and children. Then there was an explosion, I ended up here with a woman named Rebecca. We somehow pissed off a horde of demons, I again had to fight them. 

We found the Citadel, where we met up with the shrimp dude with the long name, the rhinos and the frog chick. "

Qiiesha yawned theatrically, " is this going to take much longer? I need to get rid of you before I accidentally kill you"

"Hold on almost done. Anyway there was a big battle with this ginormous demon call the Grimux. I defeated it by myself, afterwards Rebecca and I were relaxing in a hot spring. She was acting all jealous because the frog chick was in love with me. She begged me for sex, then some blue shark guy shows up, next thing I know, I'm running for my life!"

"Seems like everyone wants to kill you, ever ask yourself why?" Qiiesha asked him as she studied his sword.

"I chalk it up to jealousy, or like in your case, uncontrollably lust" he smiled sweetly.

Patiah interrupted their flirting, "guys shut up for a minute" then pointing at the horizon "what the heck is that?"

"That is a problem" they both answered simultaneously.