"Captain!" One of the guards raised his voice, pointing at the blood on the ground.
The woman immediately lost her humor as she turned on the slaves.
"What happened? Who did this?" she demanded, he face locked into a scowl.
Seeing this, the beastkin woman started to laugh. It quickly rose to a cackle, and one of the other guards smacked the cage, telling her to shut up.
That left two guards looking toward where Kir was hidden.
"Tell me or I will scour every patch of your mangy fur from your flesh," the maven shouted, punching the air and producing a burst of blue flame that made the slaves shrink back.
The woman started to reign in her laugh as she rose from her own crouch, but an odd, almost hiccuping set of chuckles remained before she spoke. "It was a blue-hearted demon," she snarled. "Gods willing, he will end you tonight."
