That's right. You know how heroes think, huh? He really is a great one . . . so of course he listened to everything the poor wizard had to say about how he was the victim of an unprovoked attack, and needed help repairing his ship so he could travel back to his home planet. So for the next little while, that's what they did—the hero and his friends working tirelessly to help the wizard repair his ship, until they could all set sail together to the wizard's home planet! Over that time, they became friends . . . or so the hero thought. And maybe the hero was right, and it was the wizard who was wrong to think it was all a game. That's a complicated issue. It doesn't really matter to the story, anyway.

[But he couldn't stop himself from touching on it. It's too weighty to not at least address in passing before moving on as if it truly doesn't matter, regardless of how true that isn't.]

So in the next chapter, they arrive back at the villain's home planet, only to be shot down again by the dragon, who'd been waiting for his inevitable return. There was never any way the wizard wouldn't come back for another shot at that crown, especially not now that he had reinforcements.