‘Let me see. It is difficult, they all look—wait, yes!’ This, as the creature opened large, dark-grey eyes within the sunken sockets of its silvered head. ‘Yes. These are the same eyes. This is the one who ordered me set free. The other one, the big human-looking one, it lifted the wreckage off me.’
‘This is the one that let you go?’
Tsendi nodded her head emphatically. ‘The same. Is it dying?’
‘I think so,’ answered Mashtuk. ‘I do not see any injuries or marks of sickness. But its life force is low. I think it is starving to death.’
The canini looked at each other. Mudiwa nosed Mashtuk. ‘What are you thinking, brother? This is an enemy. These beasts destroy everything living, and keep all the best for themselves.’
‘It saved me,’ said Tsendi quietly. ‘It didn’t kill me. It could have,
