Chapter 306

Dipping her talons in the pool of warm water she came to rest in front of me again.

“You do an excellent job of caring for your men, Mistress,” I told her.

She grunted. “Do I?” she asked rhetorically. “How do I explain their disappearance to their female breeders, then? I have merely lost their sons in a place that nothing can escape from. An excellent job, indeed,” she growled looking away from me.

I stood silent and watched the play of emotions across her terrifying face. The men were in my mind. Christof’s quiet voice told me the predominant emotion that played across Nu-reeh’s face was worry.

“They can’t have gone far—” I started to say and stopped as her eyes blazed into mine.

She bent forward until her face was in mine. The hint of glitter on her fangs told me the venom was close to seeping out. Inadvertently, I had enraged her.

“Do you imply I cannot find them in my own land?” she asked. “They are not there!” she roared. “They are not in th