After dinner, the tribe members did not immediately go to sleep. Wrapping themselves in cloth to shield against the cold night wind, they headed toward the tribe center.
Beastmen gathered on the bamboo benches arranged in front of a massive stone.
"Why did the leader gather us at the tribe center?" one beastman asked.
"Don't tell me that human female complained about nonsense to the leader?!" the female goose, who knew she had clashed with the leader's mate before, grew slightly panicked.
"The leader wouldn't side with a human over beastmen, right?" another beastman objected.
"You all saw him defend her the other day," someone else snapped back.
They all remembered it clearly. Valeo had defended Fiora right there, in this very tribe center.
"If that human female is a bad influence on the leader, then we should step in, shouldn't we?"
A young female beastman's voice rang out as she approached.
The gathered beastmen turned toward Shani, who walked in with her chest held high.
