"Thanks, and just Rick's fine, don't worry about the title...unless we're someplace formal where someone else might raise a fuss out of it." Because that was a headache he didn't want to deal with. And as the gate's opened Rick hands drift to his pocket and the battery he always kept therein. Drawing on the electricity within it as he called upon Lightning to fulfill its end of the bargain as had long ago become habit before entering the Hedge. "Right, let's go." The protective aura of lightning crackles to life around him as he speaks, then he steps forward and through the gate into the Hedge beyond.
Armor of Lightning's Fury