Kun Nakia kept her soldiers ringed around the basin without ordering the first strike. Well, even the beast wrapped around her neck and hands and the one at her feet radiated fear of the bigger one of their species.
No hunting snake would dare move against Zaira. She was the queen of her kind.
'She wants information before blood,' N'varu thought, watching her officers hold their shields low, 'that gives us more time anyway'
"My beats don't smell the abomination. Well, not enough of him. So where is he?"
He kept his voice level and said, "You have plenty of soldiers to end this basin in an hour, yet you keep asking about Sagiri instead."
Kun Nakia answered, chin lifting, "My orders concern the man who crossed three territories." She said, watching N'varu's hands instead of his face, "If he reaches the West, the decision becomes mine, understand?"
