Dangerous secrets

Agizul face visibly paled when he saw what she drew using the symbol of the holy Tusks.

His hand snaked across the sand as fast as a snake and wiped the symbol clean, his eyes full with something akin to fear or dread.

"We do not draw that symbol using the Tusks." He whispered. " To do so it's to invite doom. Nor do we speak Her name." He looked at Alexis Greyriver, curious as to why a foreigner was here now. At such a crucial and uncertain time in the history of the Ozainae. And how she seemed to have inkling of secrets best kept buried.

He stood up. "You must go. " He said looking back at the city and the noise rising from it, carried in the night winds. "You are not safe. Hide. Meet me tomorrow." He hastily suggested.

He told Alexis where he would meet her and watched her make haste to the city...