K'pandolu's tail flicked again, and she tightened her fingers on her arms, fingernails making little crescent marks. "I think it unhelpful, at best," she said, snapping off the ends of her words. He'd known about the Heroes for how long, now? As long as they'd been in this world? And all he had done- was watch. And of course he didn't specify what these 'conditions' were- presumably that was another part of whatever damnable test they had to pass to show they were worth it. As though he had the right, after this.

But her eyes widened and she hissed at the revelation the Calamity would awake again, closing in on herself a little more. Of course- they couldn't have expected that state of affairs to last forever. At least they had warning, she supposed.