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Don’t hold back, now, I thought Let us kno you really feel…

I needn’t have been concerned; sharing his feelings about half-hu that Jiht your interest in the halflings brought sha to invite theusted me, and so I followed Jakes and did aith his subjects one by one Until he began to suspectstain to be blotted out The goblins, well…" He shrugged "They got in the way"

There were hisses behindabove most of the other creatures in the hall--bared their rip on my beautiful shoes and inched away from the table

"Is this all you have to say on the matter?" Orin asked, his expression still bizarrely cal about the weather "Are these your justifications for your actions?"

Ji "My only justification is the existence of such things as that," he said, turning around to point at ave an automatic, if entirely inappropriate, little wave Why the fuck did I just do that? I thought, as Jis are a disease that ed from our society," he intoned "Any of you who cannot see that are disgracing yourselves and our people"

The hall was silent I looked about, and although ry at Jiht didn’t look entirely displeased I also noticed that quite a few beings were eyeballing ht back, and I quickly avertedout They spoke as one, their words throbbing with authority

"Jiainst our co You have risked bringing undue attention to our existence with your actions And you have spoken falsely to your king and queen, and to their Court For these crimes, which amount to acts of treason, your lives are forfeit Kneel and accept our justice, as is our right"

Rather unsurprisingly, none of the nagas knelt Instead they formed a circle around Jimmu, their firstborn brother and natural leader

"So be it," the nagas spoke together--as if to prove that they, too, could speak in stereo As one, they raised their swords in front of thelow blue as if sheathed in the eerie fire that Ryu had used to burn the goblin letter sothere’d been a lot of noises, like the sounds made by what came out of Jimmu’s sack, that I’d never heard before and never wanted to hear again But the next noise to echo through the hall was one I was pretty sure I recognized

It was the un the fan

With a fierce cry, Jiht toward Ryu