Basla was both curious and worried after Qiro's ominous words. He shouldn't have been. He should have regretted his decision to listen to Qiro.
The crazy tiger dropped off a bound and gagged Seg the first thing in the morning.
Qiro didn't want the Lowat tribe to win.
Kidnapping a member of the Seg tribe was guaranteed to turn the rest of the forest against them.
Qiro wanted strife and bloodshed. He wanted to turn the Lowat tribe into scapegoats and unify the forest against them.
That was what Basla felt. That feeling was confirmed when, later in the day, Qiro led several of the other tribes to the Lowat tribe's doorstep.
He wasn't giving Basla an opportunity. No, he was, just not in the way Basla had thought. He was giving him an opportunity to run.
