[Verus]

When the hand was offered, Verus reached out with a firm grip and answered, ”Verus.” What came next though, the rhagrhnd could not believe. The vysstichi woman’s absurd story of becoming lost and wondering around. Turning to face her with a dead stare of his grey eyes, the rhagrhnd raised his hand and pointed into the distance behind the woman to the still, but barely, visible walls of Nexus Prime. ”The city of Nexus Prime is right there… would you like to try again?”

The rhagrhnd was already suspicious of the woman. There was an air about her, something that told him not to turn his back and keep one eye open when he slept. Verus did not like that feeling, but he had become accustom to it, the empire was not a safe place. But the woman would be in for a surprise if she tried anything… unlike most of the outlanders down here, Verus did not hold a single bias towards females. In his society, males and females were treated equal and barely distinguished between, they were not treated special. If the woman chose to learn this the hard way, well all her charm or seduction or even blatant crying would not save her from the rhagrhnd’s wrath.

But in the end, even he believed that one must be proved guilty. No amount of suspicion or tiny hairs on the back of his neck raised would make him do a thing until she proved to him that she was warrant of his wrath. With the giant of a man named Rhargn voicing his agreeance to her coming along with them, Verus gave slight nod. She could come but he would be keeping a careful eye on her.