Cutting Emotional Fat with Red-Hot Reason

Rizz froze in his stoic, ear-picking expression. 

"Let me guess… the adventurers had ties to the Crystalline Church?"

Sabina's nerve-riddled face twisted into a growling grimace for a second. But her sorrowful frown swiftly returned. "Y… yes.

"They admitted it… while laughing and slaughtering my kin, with the very weapons they'd purchased from us.

"They kept saying how only some of us would've died if only I hadn't freed the beast. But now, they needed to teach us demons a lesson. 

"That they had to assert dominance to keep us beasts in check… 

"Saying we were unfit for breeding… 

"T-that we… were barely worth ra–"

"SABINA!!" 

The cheetahkin fell backward to get away from the shouting goblin. She folded her furry ears down to try and stop the ringing. "W-what was that for?!"