Shadow pulled her sword at the voice and faced off the first, pivoting to face the second when he sat up. Both men, both awake, and neither quite human. She could make out sharp teeth and red eyes in the fire light and a slight panic filled her. "I wouldn't have taken anything you would have missed," she countered keeping space between the two men and herself.
Nikolai looked at Shadow’s sword as she pointed it at them, raising an eyebrow in a manner of curiosity. “There’s no need to draw blades here,” he said, his tone soft and assuring. Whether or not that’d work, though, wasn’t up to him. “We’re not going to harm you.”
“She won’t believe it, Nikolai,” Dmitri said before letting out another yawn and stretching his arms over his head. “Her heartbeat is getting faster, more frantic… No wonder. Your eyes.”
Nikolai blinked and pulled out a small piece of reflective glass from his robes, looking at himself and scowling. Moments later, the red in his eyes disappeared. “Damn it,” he said with an irritated groan. “She probably saw your fangs when you yawned, too, Dmitri.”
Dmitri shrugged his shoulders at that, not seeming bothered by it at all. “Oops,” was all he said before looking back to Shadow. “Now, I’m sure that would have worked elsewhere, but we don’t ever burden ourselves with things we don’t have need or use for. Everything we have has a purpose, a role. But, that doesn’t mean we won’t share what we have with someone who obviously has much less.”
