Jespric eyed the gems cautiously. "What in Oblivion are those rocks? They don't look like soul gems." He asked.

Elinenne was holding her hand up over her reddened face, with tears still in her eyes. "They are soul gems, Jespric. Black soul gems. They can take human souls." 

Despite all the threats and appeals to reason, Jespric had essentially gone into denial. He was panicked, and perhaps not thinking clearly. It did not help that the Imperial, or another of Vile's faithful, had likely conditioned him to expect the kinds of threats and deals that he was being offered. It would take a lot of effort to overcome his pre-conceived ideas about his employer's enemies. "I've heard enough of this. I know what kind of liars and manipulators you are. The deal was that I pay the debt, and not betray him. That was it. They didn't say I couldn't fail, they didn't say any of that. I've maintained my end of the deal, so he'll keep his. I haven't said a word to betray him, and I won't say a word. None of us will. If you kill us, we'll all be together in Aetherius."

Ahnasha leaned forward onto the table, barring her teeth at the man. "Do you think I'm bluffing, is that it? Do you think that if you raise your voice and show how tough you are that I'll just have to leave you alone? You, all of you, are completely at my mercy."

"I think, I think..." Jespric began, raising up his head to lock eyes with Ahnasha. "I think you're a damn stupid cat and a coward that gets satisfaction out of hurting the weak. I think your flea-bitten hide isn't worth the mud on my boots, and I think my employer is going to end up making a rug out of it."

Ahnasha gripped the hilt of her dagger tightly enough that it looked like she was going to break the steel in half. She became angrier and angrier throughout Jespric's little speech until it reached the point that her expression shifted to actually being calm, almost blank. Until this point, even Fendros likely thought that the harshest of Ahnasha's threats were simply a bluff; an act to coerce the man into talking. But, there was something a bit darker than that in Ahnasha. There was a willingness to commit cruelty that, up until this point, had only ever been directed at their enemies. In this case, it might have been brought out only by anger, but it was still there.

"You are going to tell us everything you know. Right. [b]NOW![/b]" Just as she shouted, Ahnasha stabbed her dagger straight down, not into Elinenne, but straight through the middle Aneitta's right palm, piercing straight through it and pinning the hand to the table. Immediately, she gave a horrifying scream that could be heard easily outside the cabin. As an instinctual response, Elinenne, who was not bound by ropes, tried to lunge at Ahnasha, only to be backhanded to the ground and left with a broken nose.