[Increasingly, Chloe was coming to understand that violent side of the trolls. In a perverse sort of way, it was enthralling, that nature of theirs that was so cruel and dangerous. The assassin had such a bad habit of finding herself fascinated by things that were as dangerous or more than her, drawn to creatures with violent natures.
It made times like these, where those yellow eyes were gazing straight at the steam released from her hot breath, that it was that much clearer. Chloe closed her lips, holding her breath and letting it out only in very thin motions. The steam was harder to see, though in the darkness of broken masonry and low overhangs, it was obvious that something lurked. That something was trying to keep just at the edge of an outcrop, out of sight. If she had to, she would leap away and try to reach the third floor, across the broken parapet just in sight. She was certain she could make the jump.
But, for the troll, something lurking like that must surely have meant harm to the Empress.]
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It made times like these, where those yellow eyes were gazing straight at the steam released from her hot breath, that it was that much clearer. Chloe closed her lips, holding her breath and letting it out only in very thin motions. The steam was harder to see, though in the darkness of broken masonry and low overhangs, it was obvious that something lurked. That something was trying to keep just at the edge of an outcrop, out of sight. If she had to, she would leap away and try to reach the third floor, across the broken parapet just in sight. She was certain she could make the jump.
But, for the troll, something lurking like that must surely have meant harm to the Empress.]