Mount Apikuni don't go out tonight

"Your body says one thing and your words say another." Her careful caricature of submission was accurate and perhaps even genuine enough that it might have quelled the hostility of some foreign enemy... but she still had the gall to test him.  He respected that in its own right.

Curled around her yet still not touching, he lowers himself again to the ground.  He is arrogant enough that he does not fear her: she is small enough that if she came after him unprovoked that he knew he could take her (although with the cliff's edge right there, a fight would inevitably assure their mutual destruction).

He bristles and shivers as a chill runs through him. "You do not have to fear me."