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“You will not address ain”

He makes what could be considered a nod of consent, then loses consciousness I let hiround is satisfying indeed All these old guards underestimate and disrespect me Those who have held their positions inside the royal household consider themselves royal by association The ones like Tusk think they are ultra royal The insensate ass on the floor believes he has earned a place inof the sort

There are shocked stares as the other nobles and courtiers see what I have done Thirteen of them are assembled, each due to make a report to me on the matter I a to say of any value whatsoever, and the other is Tusk

“Sire” Wreck speaks respectfully

Wreck is not one of the old guard He graduated alongside me He helped hunt Rath K’zar I trust hi to distant harerandrandfather’s harem He could be considered a distant pretender to the throne, a long-lost cousin

“Yes?”

“Surveillance has indicated the identity of the assassin Or, not so eneral indicators as to the potential identity of the assassin Or at least, clues as to indicators as to the possible identity of the entity who performed the assassin Or…”

“Wreck Please”

The probleant is that you often end up terrifying the humble

He coughs and pushes a blue wave of hair out of his eyes “Most of the data collected from those nearby, cameras, spectronomy, etcetera, indicates that the assassin was not a korabi, but a human female in a korabi suit”

“How is that possible? Humans are so much smaller than korabi…”

“The scythkin have a technology which allows them to manufacture suits which, orn, allow them to assume the form of almost any other species My hypothesis is that a human accessed one of these suits and used it to assassinate…”

“HOW DARE YOU!”

Tusk wakes up and begins to rage, having not learned his lesson at all The arrogance of the old korabi courtier is so to behold I stand, arms folded over my chest as he tears into