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A low laugh, a baring of teeth in his fashion of a smile. The same smile had made the Mandarin-speaking woman uncomfortable and though it bothered him not, he wondered if this one, too, would bear such discomfort. He did not think so. Tell this one of yours first, valkyrja. A game, a test of wills, though he'd already seen her fire, burning bright and hot. It is her second request that he answers freely, deeming her well-suited to their cause and knowing Solpallur would find her the same.

This one and this one's brother take the forest of ravens and the peak that reaches above for ourselves, and for those that follow us. By way of explanation, it was not much. But in it, he told her what she would need to know; that she would follow him and Solpallur, that there were others that joined them.