Chapter 287
Chapter 287
“Who is this one who stands behind you? Why does he have a collar, and how do you expect to keep me from taking him?”
Max tried to not interfere. It was getting increasingly difficult as the crowd grew to about forty-plus lizard people.
Before Aimee stood a lizard woman who wore bands of leather wrapped around her body and tail. It was adorned with multiple shards of the sand glass, each one looking sharper than any object he had held yet.
“I have already told you, One Who Pierces Your Heart, this one is with me. I owe him and must lead him to Quan Ma.”
Chuckles came, and a few thrums reverberated from the crowd.
“The rumor is you were sold as a slave, and now you have returned, leading one of his kind, bound in a collar, and you expect me to let him just leave?! Do not think that I will hesitate to end your life, or worse yet, make you blind like your mother while I drag him behind me to Igarra!”
Max watched as the one he had finally figured out was called Kaurma pushed herself against Aimee, towering over her by a few inches, making her move back in the sand.
“Do not do that again,” Max said, letting the growl in his voice be heard by all. “Touch her once more, and I will strip the hide off you like I did the demon cats.”