Touka narrowed her eyes at the girl in the hallway, bringing her own presence to bear. She was powerful, but not overwhelmingly so, and Touka felt the hair on the back of her neck stand up. Useless human body - the itch spread across her neck and shoulders as she tried to raise hackles that didn't exist. The pup lordling's obsequiousness was starting to grate already; the youngest [i]child[/i] in the family, at least, had enough pride not to roll over and show her belly to the entire world, unlike the two grown men who claimed to be the lords of the land. "It's fine," she said, keeping her eyes locked on the girl's - Kanaka's. "If there's something that needs discussing, then by all means."