Ouroboros Spine CONQUER

The silence persisted.

Where discomfort had reigned, or even anger, it slowly began to ebb away as the moments went on without interruption. This was too easy. Simply too easy. Somehow Echelon thought that the challenge did not lie in them coming over those borders, that it would come later, perhaps much later into their takeover. The silence did not become unnerving but rather comforting that they had made it this far without walking into open jaws lying in ambush for them.

A slow smile spread evenly across her face then and her confidence skyrocketed. She marked the territory boldly, certain that it was now theirs more than anyone else. No one had come along to step up and give these wretched creatures instruction or distinction. Well now, they would have it.