The Ad'dache tribe was apparently waiting for Del to return. Once again not wanting to cause a stir Del landed the Pretipice just outside the cities front gates and left the two Drenziens on board the ship, along with Dimm. He didn't seem to like the cold air the city on the sea had to offer.
Del also saw approaching Ad'dache from the air that the Moltic sea was much large than he initially thought, it must have stretched on for at least a hundred kilometers.
He shuddered a the thought of what may lay beneath those deep blue waves in the waters murky depths. He diverted his attention not wanting to let his mind wander and conjure unimaginable horrors that had no basis in reality.
Del descended the ramp and met a group of three guards as well as a formally dressed guard that waiting for him in front of the large wooden gate.
"What do you seek outsider." The female guard asked.
"An audience with the Chieftan." Del answered the large broad shouldered warrior.
She looked to her companion, an equally broad shouldered male with long dreadlock like hair. He looked at Del studying him for a long moment and let out a begrudged grunt and nodded. The female turned around and led Del to the gate and unlatched it. She then turned back to Dem and motioned for him to follow.
The female guard walked with a quickened pace. At first Del thought she was just a busy guard, but it was more than that.
That's when Del noticed that not just the guard accompanying him but many others in the tribe were acting frantic and odd.
Then Del realized, it was as he feared. The tribe was growing uneasy. Something big was about to happen with the Drenzien's and they all knew it, and they all had diffirent ideas about what should be done.
The female guard proceeded past the crowds and murmurings. Even the animals moving about the city seemed a little uneasy. It was as if they were intelligent to what was currently going on in the minds of the natives. The guard finally reached the king stayecaise and led up back up to the Ad'dache temple.
"Our chieftan grows tired at this hour. Be quick." She said upon knocking on the door three times.
Del nodded in response, understanding the guards concern for her chieftans time and health, and the door swung open. No one tried to bar his way or prevented him from going in do he followed suit and stepped inside.
Once Del walked in, Tamiri greeted him with a warm smile, though she didn't stand from her throne this time.
"What brings you to me again dear outsider?" She asked in her warm soft tone. Much diffirebt than when Del had first met her.
"I would like to talk, about chieftan Rom's approach." Del said hestanitly.
Tamiri's eyes rolled and she waved a dismissive hand.
"That fool is too set in his ways to have anything to say that I would want to hear." She muttered.
"I believe…" Del began, carefully choosing his words, knowing they would have weight.
"I believe that there can be a compromise."
This caught the chieftans attention. Tamiri whirled her head back to Del with one eyebrow raised.
"Or rather, an alternate approach." Del added.
"Well, let's hear it." Tamiri said with a smile.
"There is a way we can go about both methods of thinking. We will simply agree to Rom's terms. We will try his way first. But the meeting spot has to be netural, which means it leaves room for improvisation.
"Oh?" Tamiri asked, acting surprised though Del knew she wasn't.
"I'm saying, we will bring your warriors, and we will hide them." Dem tried to explain more simply.
"I know what you are saying young outsider." Tamiri said condescendingly.
"What I don't know is how you expect chieftan Rom to agree to this."
"Well that's the compromise." Said Del to which he was only met with another one of Tamiri's raised eyebrows.
"We simply won't tell him, about the second part. Del shrugged.
Tamiri couldn't help but grin.
"Compromise? That is your idea of compromise?" She laughed.
"When this many lives are at stake…" Del trailed off letting the pause linger, gesturing all around him to the other Ta've in the temple.
"Yes." He finished.
Tamiri now slowly stood and looked Del right in the eye. Her eyes were incredible, Del now saw, a deep brown at the center of which before the pupil had a hint of amber glowing off the ridges of her eye sockets green skin. She paused for a long moment, thinking over what Del had said, and then gave a slow approving nod.
"Alright outsider. We will try it your way."