Neeva spent out from a raid she has committed against a caravan filled with valuable materials that were supposed to be delivered to Sorkon , decided to relax in her room drinking some tea. The raid was successful as they managed to kill the guards and rider with well timed poison gas bomb carried by the wind. They were not people Neeva considered important to keep alive as the caravans were an illegal trade between Trademaster Sini and sadistic general Maldesse. Sini traded valuable material with the nemesis of Dal-Komor for unknown reasons, but the fact he is a Maestral and so is she leaves speculation of the species helping eachother to wipe the ''inferior race'' to submission.


While sipping her relaxing tea she head footstep entering her room, she turned around ready to growl and dismiss whoever it was to remain alone, but this was not any of her people. This odd Yinglet wearing apparel never seen before with tired looking eye and a grin scanned every inch of Neeva's body with his eyes.


Before she could raise up and grab a weapon he made an hand gesture telling her to stop and wait until he said something first.


''??'' Finally i have found you dear matriarch of deazh, you do not know how happy i am to finally meet ya. I am not a foe and wish to explain my presence before you do zhe obvious zhings you usually do wizh zhose you do not agree wizh.


''Neeva'' Who zhe hell are you, give me a damn good reason not to send my guards at you! I can,t believe you manage to avoid detection of my scouts and hunters, plus avoiding all zhe traps surrounding zhis place.


'' ??'' My name is Mond and i was send here by zhe wise elders after troubling news of such lack of respect for our great tradition, it is offensive zhat we allowed our kind to fall in such disarray. Shameful is what it iz and i shall guide your people back to zhe right pazh. Before zhat allow me to prolong my life enough for you to realize somezhing.

I have been to a razher not pleasant scenery earlier today, it was horrible, yinglets wizh zheir head and limbs crushed by a blunt weapon. Zhe most interesting zhing is zhere was a lot of muddy footprint from zhe wet terrain, yinglet imprints, but not regular feet, one of it was oddly shape. Zhen i look at your Patriarch of knowledge and he has 2 fake feet, zhe shape is identical to zhe one found zhere.

My poor little Matriarch i am afraid to say zhat you have a horrible killer among your kind, i see your fake leg and it is not matching what i saw, and zhe peg leg is oddly well crafted, not zhe regular crafted leg you usually see, like how zhe oracle has... oh right you do not come from zhe ozher land, you know not of zhe oracle.



''Neeva'' w..w...what? You must be wrong! Zenyar would never kill anyone, what makes ya zhink zhere is no ozher people wizh zhe same fake legs? I did made some for ozher ying as well too so it could be any of zhem too...



''Mond'' ah yes it could be zhe case, but None of zhe one you made left your enclave, meaning zhe killer is among your people, as a matriarch i am sure you undestand zhe importance of such issues am i correct? It seems we will have to interrogate all of zhem until we get our murderer.


''Neeva'' zhat wont be necessary, i assure you zhere must be an error, maybe zhe peg leg was not a killer but a victim running away. Zhe one who did it must have a good reason i am sure , you never know wizh males am i right? Hehehe...heh... Zhey can get in a lot of trouble wizh zheir desire to mate.


''Mond'' oh? Zhat is a odd zhing to say Neeva, in fact you are correct about zhat, it does seem zhey were seeking or felt aroused, might i add your blue robe is razher pretty. Too bad zhe robe is missing a piece after said male wanted to bring a poor lost female back to zheir enclave huh? In fact i found zhe missing piece on one of zhe corpse, plus you would not believe zhe coincidence! Zhere was purple hair stuck in his grip too.




''Neeva'' g..guh!! d..damnit... I can explain! Zhey were trying to drag me away, i only tried to defend myself, zhey would not let me be! If zhey only ran away i would not have harmed zhem i swear!



'' Mond'' Zhat is oddly generous for you to say zhis but... Zhere is a big contradiction to what you just said.


''Neeva"" w-what? I swear it was self defense, i have made an oath to never harm my kind!



''Mond'' zhen tell me zhis, why was zhere claw mark of one of zhe male trying to grip on zhe ground as someone pulled it closer? Why was zhey all hit so many time zheir skull burst to pieces? Why would a female kill male who only tried to get you to safety, you do realize females are super rare, and here you are risking your neck murdering innocents left and right for some sick twisted blood lust!


''Neeva'' !!!!!!..... I... I swear zhis is zhe only time ... zhat.. zhat i killed my own kind.....



'' Mond'' Your Torek's tears won't work on me Neeva, you have killed countless of your kind making zhem carry deadly weapons called bombs, you can claim zhey chose of zheir own will, but tell me, what happened at zhe Village of Minnik ? Explosions every corner of zhe leader's home, excessive use of explosions might i add to kill one man.



"Neeva'' Zhe leader did horrible zhings to yinglets! Treated zhem like slaves! I saved zhem from him! Don't give me crap zhat i should not do to ozhers what i wouldnt zhem to do to me.


''Mond'' last time i checked, zhe definition of saving someone was not to murder zhem into oblivion!


''Neeva'' I did not kill any of zhem! I destroyed zheir leader and now zhey are free to escape! Zhe people tasted my damn wrazh for how zhey treated us.



''Mond'' yes yes preaching to zhe choir, except you forgot one zhing, all zhe yinglet slaves were working for zhe leader and zheir were all residing in his large home!! You Did not save zhem you twit! You killed zhem, you killed so many of our species wizh your damn careless behavior! I am all for teaching zhe bastard tp respect us, but you my dear have killed more zhen them in a year what zhey did in 10 years.



'Neeva'' you bastard im gonna...



''Mond'' kill me? tsk tsk tsk... Neeva Neeva Neeva, i am no warrior, i am no smart one at day , but at moon my mind is clear, you did not think i came here to scold you and expect to leave alive just like zhat? I know you are a monster who wear zhe mask of a hero, zhis is why i put all zhe cards on my side. I witness in your enclave zhat told me many of your acts, if you do somezhing to me, zhey will execute operation end of zhe line.



''Neeva'' operation what now?



''Mond'' end of zhe line my dear, zhey give your location to everyone, so much people who lost zheir loved one in your crusade, your enclave will be destroyed, many will die, but not you, you will escape and prehaps repeat zhe same events expecting a different outcome.


Do not misunderstand me neeva, I am not doing zhis because i want you to die or your people, zhis is zhe best way to ensure your collaboration, zhere is a good person under zhat blacken heart, you did good deed and i am not ignoring zhem. But you have to stop your raids, you are a wildfire zhat needs to be put down before zhere is nothing to salvage.



''Neeva'' ......so.... what do you want, banish me? Kill me? Arrest me to zhe Dal Komorian?




''Mond'' I want to become your patriarch of scouting and trades, i want to become zhe wise one bringing our glorious culture to zhis tainted land, i want you to become responsible for your actions.


''Neeva'' Zhis is as pleasant as eating shit... But i guess....i guess zhis is really it huh? end of zhe line for me..... I would argue zhat people will suffer while i am not zhere fighting for zhem but... you kinda proved i did zhe opposite.... Very well Mond... you may stay.....



'' Mond bows before Neeva'' '' Mond'' many zhanks dear matriarch, i shall await zhe morning to begin zhe glorious path so salvation.




''Neeva'' yeah yeah... tell zhe guard outside to lead you to Nyrei so she give ya a bed for zhe night, now fack off, you made my tea sour and i wish to be alone for zhe night . bastard....

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