6/17/2026, 6:10 PM
"I am. If your tests are meant to reveal what I'm capable of, then I welcome them."" Her voice carried a politeness to it, yet her eyes casted a weary gaze of suspicion as his smile braced his sharp features.
To her, and many, it would seem sincere. Yet she couldn't shake a feeling from the pit of her stomach and from the tone in his voice that they perhaps did not entirely want her kind here. She had heard the stories, of how brutish the other bands could be in contrast to the hunters of the valley.
Yet despite her fear and unknowing, Citlali was determined to prove herself useful and to find a place of her own within these lands. Her gaze would momentarily flick toward Monaghan as she were questioning what his next steps forward might be.