When the paint was wiped from the Spirit Medium's face, a young girl's reasonably pretty features appeared before Grey Wolf.
The commander from Loen made no allowances for her being a girl. He still had his soldiers shackle the Spirit Medium's hands and feet with iron chains and tie her to a wooden stake.
Then he summoned the guide to translate for him. "Ask who she is."
According to the intelligence provided by Black Cloud's scouts, the Beyonders in this tribe were unlikely to be ordinary figures, especially a Sequence 7 Spirit Medium.
She had advanced to Sequence 7 by directly consuming Beyonder Characteristics, yet had neither gone mad nor lost control.
Someone like that had to be an important figure in the tribe.
The fact that this girl had also commanded the earlier battle only strengthened Grey Wolf's conviction.
The guide asked in broken grassland speech, "What's your name, and what's your position in the Black Cloud tribe?"
The Spirit Medium spat straight at the guide.
Without any change in expression, Grey Wolf picked up a red-hot branding iron and pressed it against the girl's thigh. A sizzling sound immediately rose from the flesh.
The girl's face contorted with pain, and tears spilled uncontrollably from her eyes.
Only then did Grey Wolf remove the iron. He told the guide, "Tell her that if she refuses to cooperate, the next brand will go on her face."
"Hmm, her left cheek."
The guide wiped the spit from his face and translated.
The girl stared at the branding iron Grey Wolf had placed on the stove beside him. She panted, her gaze no longer as resolute as before.
She said in Balamese, "I'm Kama, a priestess of the tribe, and the daughter of Yinmen, our tribal chief and high priest."
Since she