"Enough," commanded the volcanic haired Queen of Mpande Pride.
The circle of warriors dispersed from around us and quickly busied themselves with studying the growth of the grass. Cowards.
I had yet to unlock my eyes from Riley's amber orbs. She used to force herself to not blink until I cowered under her glare. It never worked but that never stopped her. She dried out her cornea after a particularly heated fight and, as a punishment for irritating the darling princess, Lucinda made me apply the eye drops to her idiotic daughter's eye every other hour for three days. Three days! For a fight, I didn't even start. Riley was the one that got her braids in a bunch because I ditched her to play at the lake with my other friends. It's not my fault the girl expected me to follow her around like a puppy. Her eyes were different now though; they were slightly darker than when she was a child with a fleck of sage were visible around the glowing ring of amber in her furious eyes.
"Nikky!"
