Ves remained in a foul mood as he sat in the armored shuttle that brought him back to the Tarrasque.
The first meeting with the leaders of the Phase Lord Department unfolded completely outside anyone's expectation.
In hindsight, he realized that he may not have pushed hard enough. He let the human phase lords take the initiative, from agreeing to use their new monikers as opposed to their original human names to letting himself get completely stumped by the demand to duel their leaders.
Ves became overtaken by their verbal offensive that he could scarcely catch his breath and figure out a coherent response that did not amount to a complete capitulation.
The only positive outcome from his first meeting with the compromised human phase lords was that he did not set any of them off. He did not look forward to fighting his way out of that mess.
As Ves boarded the Tarrasque yet again, he first tried to find out whether Lucky had already completed his infiltration mission.
"Meow."
