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Helotes Lykoi · 03-27-2012, 08:52 PM

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With a gracious look in her eyes, the trader retrieved the spear and showed its balance to him, before handing it over. It felt so right in Helotes' hand, and he stepped aside to give it a good spin. The weight and balance were excellent, it nearly felt like a sword, but with a much longer range. With a smile he turned to her and nodded as she remarked that such a weapon was unique and hard to come by. In return for it she requested supplies for her wagon, and the Hydra looked the cart over. He was no carpenter, but he had ways of acquiring what she would need, Very well, let me know what it is exactly you need for it and I will have the parts in a month’s time. He was suddenly very glad of the fact that he had been offered Nathanial’s services when it came to finding parts; he would have to find the boy soon.

And then, for the tea, the woman asked a strange request, one that made Helotes cock his head slightly; she asked him to train someone, and Helotes was not sure who she referred to until she brought forth from behind the cart a scrappy coyote boy. Helotes jaw nearly fell open for several reasons, the first being that he had not noticed the youth before, and the other being the condition of the male. Raoth, as she had named him, was a slave, and the very visage of what Helotes thought one should look like. The Lykoi male was torn between disgust and pity, but faltered somewhere in the middle. Though he himself would never see use of a slave, he could understand their role in the world and therefore could not judge the woman for adding Luperci to her trade.

Handing the spear back to Amy then, he stepped forward to inspect the young coyote. Helotes stood a good deal taller than him, and the disparity in their body types was difficult to ignore. Helotes looked down at the boy, whose eyes were filled with a loathing venom that soured what would have been a youthful complexion. Helotes walked around him, sizing him up; he was skinny, but his stringy muscles were well defined; the Hydra's umber eyes flitted to Amy, What did you have in mind? It would be difficult to train him properly unless he stay here as my ward. Helotes frowned then; he knew the prospect of keeping a slave under his watchful eyes would be strange, and it might be frowned upon by the others of the clan; that plus he was not sure if the female trader would want to leave such a valuable asset in a relative strangers hands. But what he had said was true, it would be nearly impossible to train the male to any successful degree if he only had him once a moon or so. He waited for the woman’s answer.

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