Lith explained to them how Protector had helped him in Zantia and later introduced him to their common mentor, Faluel.
"Wait are you saying that hot woman was a Hydra?" Raaz felt as Mogar had suddenly turned upside down. He had no idea who might be human and who was an impostor. The thought scared him so much that he looked at Kamila in suspicion.
"How can you find hot a girl old enough to be your daughter?" Elina snarled.
"She’s actually several hundreds of years old." Ryman said, trying to calm them down but achieving the opposite. The room was about to erupt in chaos and panic when Tista said:
"Wait, there’s something I don’t understand. Even though I’m still scared shitless at the idea that some creatures can change their appearance like I change my clothes, I don’t get why Faluel accepted to help you so much.
"I mean, an Emperor Beast teaching to a human is unheard of except that in fairy tales."
"That’s the whole point of this meeting." Lith said. "In a few months I will be done with the army and I will be staying at Faluel’s until the end of my apprenticeship. It could last months or even years and I don’t want to lie to you about where I am and what I’m doing.
"To allow you to understand the reason behind my choice of career path and why I can’t trust the Griffon Kingdom, I need to show you something." Lith took off his shoes and had the shirt of the Skinwalker armor disappear, remaining bare-chested.
He wanted them to witness how deep the changes his body would undergo after shapeshifting and he didn’t want the clothes to hide the scales or the talons.
"Oh gods!" Tista gasped while shielding her eyes with her hands, yet leaving the fingers spread out enough so as to not have any problem seeing.
While his daughter was blushing up to her ears, Elina looked at her son with one hand placed above her heart and eyes full of wonder that Lith would expect in someone looking at a work of art like Michelangelo’s Pietà for the first time.
Rena instinctively felt her husband’s strong, muscular arms typical of a blacksmith before moving down to Senton’s soft belly typical of a sedentary lifestyle.
"I promise you I will exercise, but now please stop comparing me with him." Senton felt so embarrassed that he wanted to die. He was still a young man yet Lith made him feel an old coot.
"Oh my. I love it when they do that. It never gets old." Selia’s reddened cheeks while she nudged Kamila made Lith’s girlfriend incredibly embarrassed yet proud, as if she was being congratulated for something she had contributed to making.
’What the heck is wrong with them? This isn’t anything like I had predicted this would play.’ Lith couldn’t understand why the tension in the room was gone nor why it had been replaced by an awkward feeling.
’It’s not the first time they see me half-naked. When I was recovering from saving Protector’s life...’
’You were just twelve.’ Solus cut him short. ’And you were also all skin and bones due to fatigue.’
’Oh.’ Only then did Lith realize the extent of his miscalculation.
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