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[Yes, you] I snap.

Enid immediately stumbles forward until she reaches the side of the still sonorously praising one-armed priest.

I see her concentrate and then her voice appears in my mind.

[Wouldn't it be more appropriate to communicate with this man?] she indicates the priest, [it was he who led our people to this place].

This priest?! How the heck did he find me?! Does he have some sort of tracking device on me or something?! More likely he was able to follow our trail somehow but the bottom line remains, what the heck are these people here for? They certainly don't look as they've come to fight, judging by the number of women and children in the crowd, not to mention the sheer lack of arms.

[I will speak to you since I have had dealings with you before. Make it clear to the others I am speaking to you].

I don't want to talk to that guy. He makes me a nervous.

Enid take a moment to gingerly touch the priest on the shoulder and indicate that I am communicating with her using mind magic. Rather than disappointed, the priests face is overcome with enlightenment and he bows low before me, head nearly touching the ground, before he backs away to speak animatedly to the crowd. Nothing phases this guy…

[Enid. Tell me why these people have followed my family here to the wild lands]

things settled down at first. Many of the villagers wanted to know where you went but we weren't told anything. Things were

shivers then, her recollections are apparently

so high it was sky was burning. We were terrified, nobody knew

a moment, unable to go on. I'm not as good at reading human expressions as perhaps I was before but

the survivors and organised a retreat. We ran from the town with

south. We heard word of the colony's passage as we travelled. Father Beyn believed that perhaps you would be able to help us

part in the deception to save her village from themselves she knows that I am not an altruistic saviour from the

that's all we can ask. If you aren't willing then you may as well eat us] she says bitterly, [we've lost everything and

even if I do need Biomass. I'll be getting that from the Dungeon in short order, I need to prepare myself before the future generation of ant workers is

to get them settled

to their dark and dull faces. With a little more energy and spring in their step they turn as Beyn, delirious with joy at being entrusted with this task begins to lead the others

I point the tired old woman to a nearby stone and she gladly hobbles over to it and sits. I have no idea how she managed the journey at her age, trudging by foot over such a large distance. It

Tell

invaded the surface. The capital got the

inside those walls. It isn't hard to

continues, [my husband taught me a lot about his work.

no doubt about that. To me, strange stuff has been happening ever since I arrived

the Croca-Beasts? I mean the Garralosh