Rein's travels took him into a band of rebels who had been fighting for years against the dragons. They were a group of ragtag warriors tied with a common dream of freeing the world from the dragon's threat. They regarded at first Rein with suspicion, of unknown intentions; this changed into a grudging admiration as soon as he single-handedly destroyed a dragon scout that had been terrorizing a nearby village.
The others took it in their stride to welcome him into their ranks, but Rein was clear that he had no intent to join them. He wasn't fighting for the people's freedom; he was fighting for revenge. But they offered him a bond, their going into this planning tying with his own: to take down the dragons slowly, piece by piece.
During tranquility, as Rein was training with his new comrades, the unexpected happened. Instead of seeing them as tools to his vengeance, he began to see them as people with hopes and dreams for themselves. A flicker inside him started - could he care for them? Or was he too far gone?