An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

This was, without a doubt, very bad news.

“”Ms. Linsor! What happened? Where did the desert rats come from?” Garret asked as he walked toward her.

“Captain Wilder, shouldn’t I be the one asking that question?”

Grace said indifferently, “You’ve been to Deadlands many times and are very familiar with this place. You even chose this place for us to set up camp.

“Don’t you know that there would be desert rats around this area?”

“Ms. Linsor, I had no idea this would happen.”

Garett quickly explained, “Normally, desert rats will only appear at the border of the oasis, and even then, they are only active in a specific area.

“The place that we chose to set up camp is not in that area. The invasion shouldn’t have happened.”

“Ms. Linsor, accidents are inevitable. Once we’re in Deadlands, you should have prepared yourself for all scenarios. Our captain has done his best. No one knew that there’d be desert rats here.

blame anyone, you should blame your subordinates for not guarding the food supplies well.” The short-haired

continued, “Your subordinates were responsible for looking after the food supplies. Don’t blame

food supplies? Get all of them here,”

away!” Osley answered

with a few others from the team and reported, “Ms. Linsor, these are the five

problem

Dragonmarsh depended on it.

asleep.” The leader of the night guard said

All five of you?” Grace raised

have no idea what happened. As soon as night descended, we felt very tired and dozed off in

desert rat invasion was our fault, and

of them got on their knees

men, their mistakes had caused irreparable damage, and the only way to atone for

not entirely responsible for it.” Grace frowned slightly with

selected only trained elites for this expedition. They were able