<div class="floatleft">(https://pictures.hentai-foundry.com/n/NinjaKitty/150261/NinjaKitty-150261-Corruption_of_Champions_-_Wvryn.jpg)</div>To say that Nakli felt others eyes on her as she'd arrived was an understatement.  Even now, she could feel them, little glances from the citizens of the imperial capitol, servants who looked away as soon as she caught them looking.  She expected nothing less, given her reputation and she supposed that, at the very least, while she was here, she at least held a level of authority that demanded respect and that meant silence.  The stares she could handle, but if she had to endure insults from lesser nobles, she was going to want to handle things the way she would at home.  With lots of bloodshed.<br/><br/>That was one of the things she'd noticed about the way the imperial city functioned.  Some people were frightened of her, but others, like that bishop woman demanding to examine each of the wives, seethed with a certain hatred.  She didn't seem to vocalize it, though, and that much, at least, was nice.  Aside from that, Nakli remarked on how hybridized the higher races had become.  That was perhaps the only part that reminded her of home.  Her people had mingled like that for many millennia, hence their current and mercurial appearance.  Finally, something the higher races were doing right!<br/><br/>For the moment, Nakli was still reclining in the baths.  It reminded her of hot springs back home and the heat soothed her smooth, scaled flesh.  She made a point of reclining in such a way so that her bare, blue breasts, pierced with golden studs, hung above the water, shamelessly and proud.  Like one of the other wives in the room, she too was looking for someone else, but in a bit more of a predatory way.  She finally spied Elizabeth and arched her back a little to improve the matriarch's view.  She'd done her homework, she knew who Elizabeth was and was eager to test the woman's resolve.