Xilon pinned the human woman against a boulder, his teeth bared. Still couldn't decipher whose blood was on her, but he knew without a doubt that it was Renjerian. So she had lied. He couldn't trust anything she had said and she was probably a sorceress trying to trick him. The only reason he didn't burn her to cinders was because of her bravery.

Most human women he'd encountered would have screamed or fainted by now. This one lifted her chin, raised her sword toward him as ...