Ghost Wolf and the others looked extremely awkward.
"Yes… we were Chief Tali's hired help before."
Sal shot them a helpless look. He wasn't sure whether they had come to help him—or to pile more accusations onto his head.
Well, sooner or later, he would have to say it all anyway.
"We took the job without knowing he meant to target you," Ghost Wolf explained quickly. "We were just trying to earn some beast crystals. Maybe we didn't distinguish right from wrong clearly, but this is how we survive."
He had heard there was a female involved and assumed some male had abducted a tribe's female.
They were wandering beasts. They had fewer moral constraints than tribe members. As long as a task didn't violate their own principles, they rarely asked too many questions.
Nina considered their words carefully.
Perhaps wandering beasts were not all as vicious as rumor claimed. If Sal were truly cruel, would he have treated her so well?
