Giles/Ethan from Estepheia! What a treat! I love it already. You capture Ethan's perilous nature so well and Giles's wariness of him and yet inability to quite cast him adrift. Looking forward very much to how this continues.

I did spot a couple of very small spelling mistakes. 'Disappeares' instead of 'disappears' in the second paragraph and later 'toting its horn' instead of 'tooting its horn.'