08-17-2014, 03:40 PM
Akantha grimaced beneath her face covering. She couldn’t understand how humans could treat each other in that way, then turned around and looked down at her people? The old man from her earlier encounter sprung to mind. He’d let her go, though she was sure it had taken a lot of self-restraint in his part.
As Drayson continued to speak, the Naga listened with as much of an open mind as she could allow herself to. With this man, she would make an exception and trust him until she couldn’t. The feeling, however, was all too alien for her and she wasn’t quite ready to clarify that whatever this custody was, it probably wouldn’t know her people existed.
In response to his question, Akantha shook her head. “No. They tend to sstick to the deeper tunelsss. There are more tunnelsss, further down, that even thosse of usss haven’t ventured down too. Mosst of the time our concernsss are with the criminalsss and the onesss too hungry or lossst to remember scivility.”
Looking over at Ivan, then at the head of the creature he’d dispatched, the female sighed. If the creatures were venturing so close to all the humans and the surface, then there was nothing to stop them from getting to her clan. Had she been too hasty in leaving them? The group wasn’t exactly unprotected, but a feeling of guilt she didn’t like at all crept its way inside her.
“Mosst of the people here keep to themsselvesss; they try to remain quiet. I don’t often encounter othersss from above. If more of you are venturing below it could be a reason for more of the monsstersss to venture thisss far up.”
It was a wild guess, and one she was clearly holding with a good dose of skepticism. If fresh meat, so to speak, was what was drawing things like the Oni higher up in the tunnels, then Akantha would have been in this situation long before. “I cannot honesstly say why the thingsss are here and not down below where they belong. What I want to know, isss if there are more of him.”
She looked at Sarkozy once again. “I’ve not ssseen what you do before. You are dangerousss.”
As Drayson continued to speak, the Naga listened with as much of an open mind as she could allow herself to. With this man, she would make an exception and trust him until she couldn’t. The feeling, however, was all too alien for her and she wasn’t quite ready to clarify that whatever this custody was, it probably wouldn’t know her people existed.
In response to his question, Akantha shook her head. “No. They tend to sstick to the deeper tunelsss. There are more tunnelsss, further down, that even thosse of usss haven’t ventured down too. Mosst of the time our concernsss are with the criminalsss and the onesss too hungry or lossst to remember scivility.”
Looking over at Ivan, then at the head of the creature he’d dispatched, the female sighed. If the creatures were venturing so close to all the humans and the surface, then there was nothing to stop them from getting to her clan. Had she been too hasty in leaving them? The group wasn’t exactly unprotected, but a feeling of guilt she didn’t like at all crept its way inside her.
“Mosst of the people here keep to themsselvesss; they try to remain quiet. I don’t often encounter othersss from above. If more of you are venturing below it could be a reason for more of the monsstersss to venture thisss far up.”
It was a wild guess, and one she was clearly holding with a good dose of skepticism. If fresh meat, so to speak, was what was drawing things like the Oni higher up in the tunnels, then Akantha would have been in this situation long before. “I cannot honesstly say why the thingsss are here and not down below where they belong. What I want to know, isss if there are more of him.”
She looked at Sarkozy once again. “I’ve not ssseen what you do before. You are dangerousss.”