[j] conquistador

my apologies for holding this up briefly. 20hr work weekends tend to suck my soul dry. i'm also permanently too lazy for a translator, haha.

While there were no doubts of who they were — Echelon never entirely one to confirm or deny such a thing — she was amused with his forthcoming request to prove himself. Did he really need somewhere to belong so badly? Yet for all that he may have known, she found her own curiosity insatiable by far.

"From what branch are you?" she pressed him, their native tongue rattling off as though she spoke nothing else. It felt good to some degree, simply to converse this way. She would take her time prying just to hear it, instead of bending to the whims of those she had to pick more common tongues for. "What brings you here?" Whatever his validity or lack thereof, she was interested in what had brought him here. If he was truly dispatched from somewhere else, then there must have been a reason. Branches of their sprawling domain did not simply dissolve or break, but the individuals therein were oft sent elsewhere. Like seedlings, in a way. She would not deny him his audience or desire to prove his worth, but if he had deserted in search of another powerful locale, she did not anticipate things working out in any favor other than one that appeased herself.

And as though to punctuate such, she ran her tongue over her teeth.