>>25249963But Kamen merchant is befuddled, he swears he saw this same rider back at the battle on the mountain top. He puts his gaurd up. But meteor explains that he was being written as an enemy by the storyteller, and that when Tholfkas petrified the army, including himself, in one swing, that went against what the storyteller had intended, and when they were all unpetrified, they had a new sense of freedom unlike any that they had ever felt before. And so he says "I fight for you, your friends,and the freewill of all handramit now!"