^You know, Lord Tezca had some hope in you lot being actual mercenaries that we could hire and make use of for his grand endeavours, but the fact that you're all potential sacrifices works out for us as well.^
"Is now a bad time to mention that I completely forgot his name?" Antonio whispered to his allies in a [Chaos]-cloaked whisper.
"No, because I don't think he actually gave it to us," Alice assured him.
^Then again, It would probably be bad manners for me to kill you without actually introducing myself, no?^
"See?"
The subordinate, who had escorted Alice and her friends to this freaky underground complex in the first place, had entered the fray with a swagger to their step that didn't match their otherwise weedy appearance. However, as the subordinate got closer to his own bird-headed allies, he began to undergo a transformation that made his swagger look more appropriate and made him appear more and more in lockstep with them.
