>>5367493>>5367339>>5367274>>5367260>>5367195>>5367520>Ask them how they knew of our existence prior to having met us.Tempers are running high naturally, and after such a vigorous struggle it takes a strong effort from you and a good while, to calm down. It's just a good thing this fight didn't take place underwater and that you didn't get the taste of blood in the process, otherwise you wouldn't be able to stop rampaging till your raging desires were satisfied. Fortunately not, and for now it's nothing the sea can't settle, as you leave the defeated foes under Emil and Ubaid's watch so you can wade out into the tide for awhile. Not so far that they could escape but far enough to wash over your wounds and serve to calm you with the rhythm of the currents, the pulse of the sea.
Eventually when you're feeling better, the bleeding stopped at least and not so possessed of wanting to gorge yourself on the meat and blood of your enemies, you can wade back and stomp onto shore. Casting an immense shadow from the setting sun, you loom over the trio with a curious and hungry gaze.
<span class="mu-b">"...why then? Why were you here, how did you know of me?"</span>
Funnily enough the three of them had no trouble challenging and fighting you, but in the matter of conversing they are clearly nervous. You feel that they might have let their preconceptions of you run to their head, imaginings of the horrors you could do to them too strong in their minds. At least you can see they are more recovered from their injuries you dealt, in the time since the battle, and it appears that the sorceress has some sort of healing abilities probably relating to her magic. Though not fully healed, they are at least not in any critical condition.
<span class="mu-s">"Zahra was listening to the sea."</span> Faysal eventually speaks up, as your patience wears thin. <span class="mu-s">"Heard the call of some immense beast she did, and news of a shipwreck then. Talk of kidnapped women, if you met no others to face you... then we were perhaps simply the closest by."</span>
Ah, that makes sense and the revelation gives you a little newfound respect for the humans, or at least the sorceress and ones like her. In attacking the ship you called out in the ocean for the help of sea life, so it's not impossible that others would have heard you. It makes you wonder what else she may be capable of, or able to answer for you.
<span class="mu-b">"Tell me Ubaid, who is he... the lot of them, why are they here?"</span> you ask of the man, as he leads you aside from the rest now that he is free.
<span class="mu-s">"Faysal? A disgraced Emir, and they are what remains of his retinue."</span> he speaks matter-of-factly, surprisingly not holding disdain for his former captors. <span class="mu-s">"Ah, not so disgraced maybe? The emirate of his father lost to the kafir, those like him seek something to prove and restore their honor."</span>
Like many things with the present-day humans it is strange to you, but Ubaid can try to explain it.
