"I'm fine," Konoe said harshly, looking him in the eye until he couldn't bear it anymore. His crooked tail twitched back and forth.

"I don't get what they are trying to enforce." The one good thing about ribika being relatively solitary creatures is that even in settlements, conflicts that happened were usually handled personally or by a leader. He didn't quite get the concept of a police force; the closest thing would be bounty hunters, and Rai operated under different rules.

Konoe desperately wanted to ask about the visions, if this man had seen anything, but he was reluctant to trust him even more than he did already. Besides, it was cold and he gave himself a little shake to get off some of the chill.