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The outcry fell to deafened ears, his grip on the boy's neck only tightening as limbs flailed and the body struggled. If he needed to, if it came to it, he would stain the white snows red with blood; the only reason he did not harm the trespasser further yet was because their claim was unofficial and Stjornuati was nothing if not a calculating fellow. To kill another before their claim was made real was to invite the ire of others, and who knew who this one pledged his allegiance to.

A gradual pressure was applied, slow, methodic, and threatening. As soon as movement stopped, whether by choice or by action, Stjornuati would stop but not before then.

Valmua was ignored entirely, for the moment.