Zed knows he shouldn't be hanging around for too much longer, either. He's already weakened from the fire, and though this is a dark forest, it's still daytime. He's weaker during the day--it's a bad time to fight. But he's not about to stop his boasting, either. He swings the sword to block that vine, too, though it's not as fast as he'd like. "What, and miss out on this exercise? It was getting kind of boring around here before this."