<div class="floatright"><strong>Tafiya</strong><br/>(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1SJCA48_ZnE8A590i9pyaQTxnMGBM7ets)</div>Tafiya made a funny, blank face at the notion the Sarki had many women. She didn't seem completely surprised or shocked, just slightly unable to process the true meaning of what the Queen said. The silver woman just freezes in place when Lea'shee touches her face. She seems to hold her breath and tense a little, her eyes opening wider and her eyes dilating a little. Lea'shee does indeed feel smooth skin, cool to the touch despite the oppressive heat, even in the shaded library building. Her wings unfold a little, as if they were prepared to spread out and let her fly out of this now very ackward situation she found herself in, but she didn't reject Lea'shee outright or feel disgusted. In fact she seemed intrigue and blushed a darker shade of silver, but her shock wore off a few moments later and she returned to her more neutral, disapproving look she seemed to have on at all times. Lea could tell she wasn't angry, just surprised by the unexpected touch.<br/><br/><strong>"Like the lions I've read about in the books? There's only one male lion, but several lionesses. It leads to some rather... fierce... competition between lions. Is that why Sarki Ra’Shuurma has so many women, because he defeated other men in personal combat? And why would assassins want to kill his women and children? They are no threat, or evil."</strong><br/><br/>It was a simpler and more animal way to look at things but there was certainly a grain of truth to it. Tafiya certainly didn't miss the fact that Lea'shee had left the door open, so to speak. It hadn't been a direct invitation, that would be too direct, but more of an intriguing notion. She certainly knew the Sarki was interested in her, but this mysterious snake-woman was harder to figure out. She didn't say everything she knew to her of course, like the fact that she knew the woman was evil, had sunk her claws into the powerful human Sarki, and wasn't going to let some little competition slow her plans, but she realized on some level that she could be a threat to her if she caught the Sarki's lust too much. For now, Tafiya preferred not to get involved, not to cause problems, but she didn't seem to count on the possibility that Lea'shee wanted her just as much as the Sarki did, and would probably want her even more so once she realized Tafiya didn't want to do politics and her attitudes towards good and evil could be used.