>>5364283>>5364320>>5364337>Accept the terms. Strange customs of the humans, and dealing with their own people, but things are going your way so you don't mind playing along. It will also give you a chance to get to know your new prisoner.This exchange is suitable to you, for now. You may not have gotten what you wanted, which is everything, but you didn't lose anything at least. Though it might have been fun to go on a rampage against the humans, that can come later. For now you follow your new prisoner some distance away, to wait among the sea grass and bushes up by the cliffs while the sun sets.
Although at your size you can't just disappear from sight, the mob of humans having seen you wander away. But the remaining patrolmen can try and corral the villagers back to town, and it helps their cause to have one of the noble ladies with them, making it seem like they accomplished something in driving you away.
<span class="mu-s">"Are you well, sayida? This monster hasn't mistreated you?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"N-No, I... treated well, that I have. The monster is... ah, Tanaloa is the name."</span>
As soon as possible once he joined you, Ubaid saw to Farhana to make sure she was alright. Strangers though they are, by their culture and noble customs he seems immensely concerned for her sake, which is nice to see you suppose. It demonstrates that the humans aren't all just savage animals you can't deal with, without violence.
<span class="mu-b">"She is alive by my will, you need not worry... now then, what should I know of you as my hostage, little man?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"...mhm, we have the time now kir- Tanaloa, you are called?"</span>
Sitting among the rocks and underbrush, you're willing to wait until dark before continuing back down to the sea. In the meantime then you have the chance to familiarize yourself with one of the Almhorad men, a faris as they call him. And while it's not as easy to talk with him as the merchant from last night, he's much more composed towards you than the noble ladies. Of course you put him on edge but he isn't seized by terror as to struggle to speak. From him you can learn that he is minor nobility, esteemed by military service and a bannerman to the local "Emir", the human leader of these parts. Specifically he oversaw the fishing village nearby, and had been in these parts recently to manage evacuation efforts in the face of Emil's advancing people. That is, anyone who cared to evacuate since most locals consider themselves natives and see the ongoing war as merely a change in leadership, for better or worse.
