The Warrior's Pet(64)

"Please." Giselle looked pleadingly at Stone.

Stone made a few gestures and Kagan nearly broke out into laughter.

"What did he say?" Giselle asked not knowing nearly enough hand signals.

"He said of course I do. I am male." Kagan grinned from ear to ear.

"Alright then! How do you gentleman feel about a little guerrilla warfare?" Giselle beamed.





9 Variations and Adaptability




Kagan quo Rordan

The numbers of dead that were slowly being consecrated by fire made for a macabre backdrop as the warrior along with the Toufik made ready for battle. The last two days had been busy.

Kagan looked around him and felt a swell of pride. He grinned as the hairy Toufik warriors tromped into the forest with one of his commanders to set-up one part of the plan they devised.

The Cadis had turned into a race of warriors and yet much of their skill was in its infancy. The history of Giselle's people lent to more than a few unusual strategies they had decided to use against Vigdis. Giselle had thrown out idea after idea for how they could approach the upcoming war. Some of what she came up with was obvious and had been done in some way shape or form, but there were other strategies, observations and ideas that were damn near brilliant. Kagan wanted to laugh as he recalled the expression on his commanders' faces. They had been in awe of his little warrior. This would be a new and unprecedented battle for the Cadi. What they planned would more than even the score between the uneven armies. They would actually have a fighting chance if they could pull it off.

Kagan had been unsure if the Toufik would be up to the task until Stone had demonstrated the skill of his Toufik males. The supposedly gentle hairy people fought with a lethal ferocity that made Kagan glad he'd never mistreated the people. When this was all over he would need to seriously re-asses, the relationship the Cadis had with the Toufik. It was becoming very apparent that they had been sorely underestimated.

Kagan turned to see Giselle teaching a band of males various Judo techniques. One of his engineers approached Giselle, and she broke off from training and headed towards Kagan with the male. As the duo approached, they had to bypass a group of warriors digging a burrow into the ground, it would be one of many pits in the open field.

"Hello beautiful" Kagan greeted his little warrior. "Tytus" He nodded to his engineer.

"Daimio" The engineer greeted him looking excited.

"Do you have good news?" Kagan asked although he had a feeling it was unnecessary.

"I do. We were successful making the device Giselle described." Tytus reported. "It was easier than expected. The difficulty came in concentrating the pulse, but we've got that nailed down."

Giselle clapped happily.

"And how do we protect our own comms when this pulse is unleashed?" Kagan asked.

"Your little female is a wealth of information." Tytus looked at Giselle in admiration. "We've constructed a ferreting cage."

"Faraday Cage." Giselle corrected. "And I only explained the principle from what I'd heard back home, you actually turned my babble into something." Giselle praised the warrior.

Tytus soaked it up. "Thank you." He bowed. "We have shielded the garage where we've stored the rota and other transports. Each fighting unit will need to store their communicators in one of these boxes."

Kagan look at the simple metal lined crate. Kagan could hardly believe such a simple thing could protect their equipment. Then again he couldn't understand how a burst of electricity could be used to kill the electronic guts of their enemy's equipment. Science was a wonder.

"We will need a signal to let everyone know when it's safe to get their equipment back out." Tytus said.

"It will need to be something Vigdis' army won't recognize." Kagan considered.

"How about an animal call or something." Giselle suggested.

Kagan grinned then tilted back his head and bellowed out a feral roar.

Giselle's eyes widened as she stumbled back. Everyone on the field stopped and looked at Kagan. In the stunned quiet a responding roar could be heard deep in the forest.

"You beast you nearly made me deaf." Giselle swatted his chest. "I think I heard your mate calling for you in the woods." She teased.

"My pet thinks she's funny." Kagan said to Tytus who smiled back.

Giselle patted Kagan's chest where she'd walloped him. Kagan lifted her other hand and looked at her wrist. Giselle kept it bound, but the swelling had decreased and it was nearly healed like the rest of her injuries. The fact she had them in the first place still pissed him off.

"Don't go growling, it's almost healed." Giselle insisted.

The only thing that kept Kagan from going after Bram was the knowledge that Dagaa had given him to Stone, so the Toufik now had a servant at their disposal. Much like the majority of the Cadi warriors, the Toufik males did not like the idea that Bram had harmed a female. They were working the male like a dog.