>>6134847You're ready to go on the attack, to cut these potential threats down as swiftly and efficiently as possible. But as they don't immediately attack, you wonder if they can be negotiated with.And thanks to your rage-induced message earlier, realize that there's a way to handle this easily enough. Through your connection to New Salda you directly reach into the minds of the four unfamiliar bipedal natives. As soon as you do, you can feel their overwhelming terror. They are afraid of you, which you can use to control this situation. With your mind firmly connected to theirs you deliver your warning, words converted to emotions and thoughts they can understand.
“Let us through. If you fight, you will die.” you tell them, then show images of where each of them are in relation to you. Showing them you not only know where all of them are, but that you aren't afraid. “Leave me and my family alone, and I will leave you all alone. But come after my children, and you will all die.”
You can feel their sudden panic and uncertainty, their FEAR through the mental link. But then the one underneath the tree, the no doubt eldest of the four adults responds, the mental link condensing their thoughts into words you understand.
“I remember you. You killed many of our kind, hunter. Thank you for leaving us be.” comes the reply, the mind most definitely that of a female. “You leave us and our children alone, do not hunt us, and we shall do for you the same. We wish only to live in our forest, as our ancestors have and seek no quarrel with your kind.”
“Very well, I accept.” you say, both telepathically and aloud. As you do, from the canopy above drops a massive native, who lands silently before you in a crouch as your children shout in surprise. You can even feel Meloka tense up, ready to battle. Its fur much darker than you remember their kind, eyes burning with anger but also something else as it rises up to its easily eight foot tall height. This one must be the eldest male, broad of shoulders and powerfully built. You step forward, offering the beast your hand as you hear several confused calls from your family behind you. The large creature steps forward, head cocked slightly at the sight of you. But with your minds still connected thanks to New Salda's power through the mental link, it can see your thoughts to understand the handshake. It steps forward as well and taking your arm in its hand. Shaking twice you release the beast, who steps back then crouches, leaping back up into the canopy with barely a sound. Not even a rustle of leaves as it vanishes from sight, you sensing it and the other two retreating into the tree before you to join their family. “Alright everyone, let's go.”
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