Jaku can feel Tamara's body tremble in contained anger, and only the arm that he has placed over her shoulders prevent her from doing anything. If he's wanting to listens to what they have to say, then so be it, but it is very obvious for him, as well as to anyone who is paying attention to the little details, that she is not happy at all with the current situation, and the proposal that has been submitted to them. Her body tenses as the Captain walks towards them and gives the nagas a piece of mind after the stunt pulled by Arkain and Kellus, but the arm still on her shoulder, and a glance at Jaku convince her to stay put. Yet her tailmaw crawls over Jaku's and nibbles on it hard with it's toothless jaw, if only to make her point crystal clear to him.<br/><br/>Of course, when Lily falls from her chair and Jaku scoops her up, Tamara his by Jaku's side in a heartbeat. She brushes a lock of hair off of the girl's face and cringes a little when she touches her skin. The feeling she gets from that simple touch doesn't bode well. She looks at Jaku with a frown on her face, her look clear on what she think about having people forced that way into her family. While she can easily relate and sympathize with Lily, the Captain and MacDierty, the fact remains that Lily is more or less being forced into their wombs to be transformed and saved, and that doesn't sits well with her. But if Jaku is ready to take her, she won't oppose his decision.<br/><br/>Tamara leaves Jaku's sides and slithers back towards the Captain and Mister MacDierty, who are watching Jaku as he cradles Lily in his four arms. She gives a passing rub and nod at Both Kellus and Arkain, a way to let them know that she understand that they thought they were doing a good thing, and that she doesn't hold it against them, even though it did not had the intended result. Once in front of the two humans, she raises up, slowly, deliberately slowly, until her head is level with theirs. One of the downsides of being turned into half-naga was that you lost some height because you no longer have legs.<br/><br/>She looks at them both in the eyes, her gaze shifting between them. "We are not healers. We never claimed to be. Only Arkain here has, had, healing powers before he joined my family. He seems to have retained them, but perhaps they were altered by his transformation. I don't know."<br/><br/>Then she focuses on MacDierty. "I don't trust you either. I don't trust people who watch and plot from the shadows, manipulating other people to do their whim, without thinking much further than that. I don't like to have people forced into my womb or into my family. Because Lily WILL become family if she is transformed, whether you want it or not."<br/><br/>She drew a breathe and slithered away. "Since my dear Jaku here seems ready to take her in," she said as she went back to him and planted a loving kiss on his forehead, "that means it is highly likely that she'll become family. I'm not too sure that you are completely grasping what that means, Captain, Mister MacDierty, and even less sure than she does..."