>>5377212>>5377245>>5377285>Be honest with her. Even if she's remained skeptical of you all this time, you've always told the truth.Your disdain for the humans comes from your own past involved with them, but back then you weren't alone in the world either. Always around your siblings, always able to return to mother's side. Now though, of course you'd rather it wasn't humans at all, but it's kind of nice interacting with any sort of people on a non-hostile basis.
Though you'd just as easily kill and eat them all anyway, you prefer keeping options available to you. And Cailinn here is one such option, as you feel you can speak on... relatively even terms. Easier than Faysal at least, who for all his talents, still resents his service to you and probably always will.
<span class="mu-b">"You are the first person I have met since I was freed, that actually trusted me... so I gave you boon as thanks. The power of that false god you wasted your hopes and prayers on, I didn't like the taste so you can have it."</span>
Although she doesn't really grasp what you are telling her, doesn't even understand the strange new way she feels, Cailinn at least realizes that something significant has been done. Going weak in the legs she falls to your size and wipes her brow, trying to process it all while catching her breath.
<span class="mu-b">"Now, have your elders gather your most ferocious warriors to me. My boons to your people shall not stop with you."</span>
Rising to your feet and picking her up in the process, you startle the onlookers with your ambitious gaze, stomping back to the village center.
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<span class="mu-b">"Is this really the best you could do?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"We're fishermen, remember. If we were a clan of warriors we wouldn't have been pleading to you... the other you, in our time of need."</span>
So you stand with small, nervous band of Gaelans, spying on a Namadan encampment. Surrounded by wooden stakes atop a hill, about fifty men or more visible, including horses for cavalry. A place you reached by noon after the morning spent traversing your way here. The good news is, after your night spent in the village and with Cailinn to display her divine empowerment to everyone, the clan is a little more accepting of the idea that you aren't going to leave. No angry mob to have to deal with at your presence in the village center, and you even get some baskets and prayers of people in prayer to you. Overall the perception of you is still negative, but it's better than last night.
