"You are injured?"
"They keep waiting for me to die," Apausha sighed. "But thus far, I have denied them that pleasure. The only reason I am still alive, I suspect, is because Zepar has been so busy he forgot he threw me in here to punish me with a dishonorable death.
"Why did you give the Evil One the directions to our world?" Ninsianna said. Anger welled in her gut. "How could you send such evil to a helpless people?"
Apausha made glancing eye contact at her through eyelids which were hooded by a clear protective inner eyelid. His look was skeptical, not the action of a creature which was too fearful to look her in the eye, but then he looked away.
"I resisted as long as I could," Apausha said. "But even a devoted follower of Shay'tan can only suffer so much before his mouth speaks wo
