The downside to a distinct lack of communication skills is that it makes it very easy for even the most astute to misunderstand one’s intentions. Both parties seemed to not understand one another at all and neither party seemed to be aware of it. 

The elf seemed to say nothing, not even acknowledging the Sand King’s words with a nod or anything. She just continued to stare forward, a calm expression on her serene, blood covered face. 

She did see the man who had pinned her down earlier make a strange gesture with his eye at her. She had no idea what that meant, but she didn’t make that fact known either. She did look at him now. 

[i]”[color=39b54a]Enemy…[/color]”[/i] was a thought that went through her mind. He had stopped her hunt and put her in these ropes. [i]”[color=39b54a]Guard[/color]?”[/i] Was another word that went through her mind. She was confused though on that front as this man had let her enemies escape, yet seemed to be like a Guard as well who had put her in restraints. 

[color=8882be][i]”That’s your enemy Subject KA2U3! Take them down and you’ll get extra bread!”[/i][/color]

[color=8882be][i]”Guards, restrain them!”[/i][/color]

Two sets of words played in her mind from that ambitious voice from her past. [i][color=39b54a]”Guard… enemy… enemy…guard[/color]?”[/i] Guards did sometimes prevent her from taking down the enemies. She had killed many guards before. 

Her eyes seemed to look away from Rajeev as she returned to staring forward at the Sand King once again, yet her ears were listening. Listening to the Guards all around her. 

These Guards that were preventing her from attaining her Freedom by preventing her from taking down the enemies by keeping her in these restraints. 

[i]”[color=39b54a]Right… moment…[/color]”[/i] Those two words went through her mind once again and so she decided to wait once again. 

Wait for the right moment. For in her mind, she wasn’t getting her promised Freedom because she hadn’t completed the job of taking down the enemies as some of them managed to escape. And that was the fault of these Guards. 

In her mind, the words “Guard” and “Enemy” were starting to mean the same thing. Which was never a good thing for anyone involved. 

But she was no moron. This wasn’t the right moment. So she was going to simply wait. She had waited many years before. This amount of waiting was nothing. 

[i]”A good hunter knows the right moment to end the hunt.”[/i]

The hunt was currently over and the right moment to start it hadn’t arrived. This meant for now, the elf was going to [i]wait[/i]. 

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So in the end, the blood covered huntress made no objection to going along with whatever was going to happen to her or wherever they planned on taking her. Since she was making no objections, her silence could easily be misconstrued as compliance. 

She listened to the rest of the words that the Sand King had to say. For the elf, they were all simply noise in the wind. The man spoke a lot and was reminding the elf of a certain [color=8882be][i]ambitious man[/i][/color] who she knew very well. That man also spoke a lot of strange, long, confusing words and in long rambles. 

“[i]Hunt[/i]”. “[i]Enemy[/i]”. “[i]Reward[/i]”. These were the only words that the elf understood from what the Sand King had to say. 

Yet she didn’t say anything in response to them or ask any questions. In the end she continued to be silent and simply look forward at the Sand King despite her current physical condition.