Dragoncrest Cliffs good lord, what would that sound like without love.

nomi and eske filter in, looking at them expectantly. blix lifts her head and straightens up, prepared to cut artaax off if he starts trying to throw them under the rug -- but he doesn't. instead furi starts explaining. the redhead takes a small step forward, nodding at her girlfriend's words. "they're real protective of the traitor for some reason," she adds on, a touch bitterly. the fight has taken precendence in her mind, but there'd been something else to report, hadn't there? "one of them - an older guy - he spoke our language," blix says, her attention shifting to nomi fully, "he - knew your name, nomi. we were going to go get you but -" each word grows more heated until she lapses back into trig - "those cowards insulted us -- they started it!" she huffs, looking at artaax and daring him to contest her on that point. sure, technically furi and artaax started it by not following blix's orders, but she doesn't actually consider that to be the case -- that shitty boy'd needed to get his skull smashed in for saying stupid shit, diplomacy be damned.