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Prominent brows furrowed together as the other woman spoke. The white spots on her forehead moved almost together as she peered at the stranger looking back up at her. The gaze was not as intense as it could have been to deter those thoughts of capture aside, but it was enough to settle the woman. This one would not go quietly and there was nothing she could have done about that. Resignation set into her features as she sat back on the horse, who fidgeted slightly at the shift of weight. Kaoru turned his sea eyes at his mistress from the stranger, unable to guess her next words. He had been her slave for too brief a time to know who she truly was in all situations. And it was not his place to question or to judge.
"The coast, you say?" she asked the woman. Then, without moving her gaze off the stranger, Isabella softly asked, "どこで？海?" These were the most basic words she had picked up from the slave, and the terribly faint memories of the language rarely spoken at home. Kaoru looked up through the trees, to the sun. He knew what time of day it ought to be and then pointed south without a word. Isabella only let her gaze shift for a moment before smiling at Jordyn. "Why do you want to go to the coast, miss..?" her voice fading out as she waited for a name. Surely this creature had a name.
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