Nova Peak spoken like a true debutante.

yikes! were all mainland women so irritable?

for a moment, anu found himself nostalgic for the calmer, more subservient women of his kind -- which was quite a powerful thing to evoke in the man, given he had little fondness at all for women and preferred men himself. he stopped, long ears attentive but askance: what was her problem?

anu did not know how much more of this dawdling he could take: wasn't she supposed to bring him to her (male) leader, so that the two men could talk and he could stop doing whatever harebrained thing this woman was preoccupied with?

hopefully, the rest of the leader's servants were not this, uh, addled.

but anu, recognizing the mule before the cart was deader than dead, and truthfully fearing that this might be a kingdom of idiots, decided to make his leave. with a decisive snort that announced his less-than-impressed opinion, anu slipped off into the reeds and was not seen again.