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Can't be arsed to do hover, so assume what she's saying is in Inupiaq. <__>

The smug expression was not lost on Echelon, who could have smoldered beneath that gaze.  But she did not, instead allowing her own attention hone in on the imposing stature of Tonravik.  Her own deference was there as well, but she had no qualms about showing just a little boldness, just a little tidbit of her own status within the Spine by having a lesser reaction.  She knew that Tonravik was making her assessments just as Echelon had made her own and her wonder lied not so much in what Tonravik would think of them, but rather what she would think of her for finding them.  But this did not come without the truth, either.

"This one is arrogant.  They were laying about our border," she told her Issumator in their native tongue.  This was on purpose naturally; the tone was unsurprisingly flat.  What they may have thought of her in that moment she did not care for, openly confident that no ill will would come of it here in the presence of her aokkatti.  But they could have used the extra body no doubt, leaving her with one question with the same absence of tone.  "Should we break them in?"