Looming

"Welcome back. How'd it go...?" asked Will, relaxing on a dark green sofa and gently combing his fingers through Andrika's hair as she used his lap as a pillow.

"We encountered some trouble," stated Madeen, looking a little unkempt but otherwise uninjured as she explained, "A Caprini male calling himself Madog Witomir attempted to approach and surround Fionnadh when she declined his invitation. She defeated them effortlessly, but if I remember correctly, the Witomir family should be one of the more powerful families in Zoagaard."

"Yeah, they call themselves the Rulers of the Day," affirmed Will, adopting a slight frown. Scions and hyperprivileged assholes were common in most forms of society, but they tended to be especially insufferable in societies ruled by power and private militaries. What made the Caprini, in particular, a pain was that, like the rams/sheep they were based on, they were great in number and tended to blindly follow their leaders...