"The Red" having been distracted for a time, had produced a whetstone and set it to the aged blade he bore in the form of the scimitar's edge. Each gentle stroke producing a faint hum along the sword's deadly curve, the savage proved to roll a thumb lightly across it to test its keen. To him, the blade was the most valuable relic he carried short of the hood he bore - both icons of what he was one behalf the world. Lifting the sword with ease, despite its actual physical heft, "The Red" further examined its bronze-like inlays and their engravings; the most distinctive of the motifs a fiercely snarling feline beast, of which showed fangs wide and claws flared.

There was no mere mundane glint to the weapon either something more lingered about to its presence and humbleness.

[i]"Excuse me."[/i] Spoke a thin woman who wore, most notably, thick glasses - a rare item of wealth.

"The Red", having paid her little heed until now, brought the untamed eyes he bore upon her, assessing the woman as his powerful grasp tightened around the scimitar's worn leather handle; the woman's deep brown eyes matched the rims of her glasses and short of the oddity of owning such a valuable item, she appeared seemingly unremarkable. To the beast of a man, this raised many suspicions and roused him to standing.

Taking a step forward, blade in hand, he positioned himself beside Ioannes whose kind naivety rubbed raw the nerves of "The Red". Did he not realize someone as unusual as this woman was a potential threat, or did he just not care? It helped little to prove the barbarian as wrong when she spoke next no less.

[i]"You're all destined for great danger, sacrifice. Victory does not come without blood or loss, but it is a possibility."[/i]

"Either explain yourself, woman, or I will end you here as testament that I do not take lightly any supposed threat on [i]my[/i] fate or that of the realm." The man snarled with a menace, slightly altering his footing in preparation of what he understood as a word of her willingness to do them ill; being vague with "The Red" was never a promising approach, particularly not if it could be interpreted remotely as a threat.

Nature's warriors did not live long if they did not view every potential threat as an actual one.

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