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The mutant still had the strange object around her neck, maybe for this very reason; the object caught his teeth painfully and blocked him from tearing into her flesh. The distraction allowed Diesel to pull back and drag the hard thing across his teeth, pulling a snarl from the scutarius. She hit Glaukos and Kallik was about to lunge forward again, but the imperator's command made him freeze.

He spat blood on the ground and turned to watch Germaicus approach the group. He would hold back for now, but he refused to move from the imperator's side should the order be given to continue his attack.

The maimed woman explained that she left because she was in heat, which he thought was a convenient excuse given there was no way to really prove that. As for who had given her the new injuries, the soldier was having a difficult time understanding that part with her strangely slurred speech. 

Then he smelled blood, and not his own that still dripped from his mouth. He turned and saw Towhee just as the familiar scent reached his nose. It stirred his instincts but his love for Aquene overrode everything the way only love could. He pushed the urges away, never wanting to feel those things for the praefectus ever again. 

He wished Killdeer would take her away from the group now, or her husband maybe. Anyone, so that he could properly focus again. 

He looked away and to the imperator, awaiting his instruction. Kallik was very glad he was not the one in charge here.