Sabine relaxed a little under Meesei's touch, though her breath was held in anticipation of putting her words together. When Meesei handed her the list, she lowered her head. She had even missed Hal-Neesa's demands.

Before Meesei could leave, Sabine followed along for just long enough to speak. "Okay, but, I need to tell you about it when you have a moment. It's very important!"

Fendros had no desire to follow his father for the moment. He approached Sabine instead to hear what she had to say. They could both catch Meesei up to speed about the nature of Neesa's tinkering later.

While Rossarm and Meesei walked, Rossarm regained his posture and healed the rest of his injuries with simple healing magic. He kept his eyes on his hands as he channelled the spell, though he showed little indication that he would otherwise have been giving Meesei eye contact.

"You are at her mercy, are you not?" Rossarm said gravely. "Fitting for Molag Bal. Even if she was not a monstrous creature, you have surrounded yourself with automatons. As much as my mentors might have liked to think that laying eggs made your kind less concerned with the fate of your non-combatants, a war against Argonians has taught me differently. So, tell me, when you plan to enter Clavicus Vile's realm, how have you planned to keep the rest of the people here safe from her?"

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Just as before, Julan's strength overcame Narsi, but Narsi had a surprise. This one turned out to be particularly painful, even for Julan, as Narsi was toppled over with her teeth sunk deep into Julan's forearm, and she was biting down hard.

She made other attempts to struggle whilst pinned to the floor. Punches went into Julan's side ineffectually due to the lack of space. Attempts to throw herself back into a better position were thwarted by a lack of leverage, and she couldn't wriggle free with Julan's strong grip.

"Hey, blood! Blood!" Rhazii pointed at the red dripping down Narsi's chin from where her tusks pierced Julan's scales. Normally, sparring matches were not meant to continue until open wounds were healed.