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Kaz was scared. He always was a little nervous when he was in Chaor's palace, but he rarely had a couple of guards escorting him to the throne room. The last time he got caught, Takinom was there to hear him scream, but he knew she wasn't going to come to his rescue this time. Chaorwanted to see him, and when the Underworld ruler got an idea in his head, it usually took Takinom and Agitos to talk him out of it, but that was only on Chaor's good days. He tried not to think about the punishment he was going to receive for sneaking in again, but the shivering made it clear to the guards that this wasn't easy for him.

"What do you think he's going to do to you?" one of them asked, wanting to make the human think about it more

"You know Chaor will probably have you for lunch, right?" the other asked

"Mmm, human." the first one taunted

"Chaor won't eat me." Kaz was mostly trying to convince himself of that "I'm too important to him."

"Because you're important to Takinom?" the first one asked. Kaz was starting to think this guy was the trouble maker of the two "I heard she hasn't been on her best behavior lately."

"What do you mean?" Kaz asked

"It doesn't concern a human." the first guard told him just for the sake of making the human mad

"Rumor has it she got into a disagreement with Chaor." the other one told him "I don't suppose you know anything about it?"

"I may know something." Kaz lied "What's in it for me?"

"You answer our questions and we won't cut your arms off." the first guard said as he grabbed one of Kaz's arms

"It probably had something to do with Skithia." Kaz didn't know for sure, but he was willing to say whatever it took to get the guards to not hurt him

"Like what?" the first guard asked as he gave Kaz a slight pull to help get the point across

"Now that Van Bloot is gone, Takinom probably wants to put Skithia in one of her dungeons." Kaz explained "But Chaor would probably want Skithia in the Pitts because of the higher security."

"This human has a point." the second guard said. The first guard gave Kaz a shove forward. The human stumbled a bit, but he was glad to not have that armored hand around his scrawny arm.

They soon neared the doors the the Throne Room. As usual, two guards were in front of the doors. They opened them without a word. Kaz's shivering got worse when he saw that Takinom wasn't with him. The sound of them being slammed behind him didn't make him anymore comfortable. His life was over- he just knew it.

"Kaz, I've been wanting for you." the tone of his voice made it clear that Chaor was not happy. Then again, he never was. Remembering that fact made Kaz feel a little better, but his shaking didn't stop until Chaor assured him "I'm not upset with you."

Kaz gave a sigh of relief before he started to talk "Thank goodness! Those guards had me scared." Kaz quickly tried to take back part of what he had just said when Chaor's eye narrowed a bit "But not that scared."

"I have something I need your help with." Chaor tried to ignore Kaz's patheticness and get on with the issue at hand "I'm not very experienced in this area and I need a new advisor until I get things under my control."

Kaz thought back to the last time he heard Chaor say that he needed an advisor. It was during a nightmare, and Kaz occasionally thought back on it, hoping the events would never happen.

"W-what do you need my help for?" Kaz was paler than normal, and his shaking was worse than when he entered the room

Chaor ignored that as he assured the human "You're going to get some good scans out of this." Chaor grinned as he continued "From what I understand, you have a way with females. Takinom seems to really like you, and she's been upset lately about you bothering Nivenna."

"What does Nivenna have to do with this?" Kaz's shaking slowed down again as the human narrowed his eyes at the creature.

"Nivenna lives in Fear Valley and spends most of her time in Kopond's library. If she spent more time here, then you would have one more reason to sneak in."

"How can I help?" Kaz wanted to see Nivenna more often, but he was more concerned with whatever Chaor was up to

"How much do you really know about Takinom?"

"Plenty." Kaz was much more comfortable now "And it would be easy to find out more." he took out his scanner to suggest that he could tap into her hear with a scan of her "What do you want to know?"

"What females want."

Kaz started choking on air as soon as that came out. His coughing fit made no sense to Chaor, but he put his right elbow on his arm rest and propped his head on his fist as Kaz continued with his strange reaction. The human's throat closed up as he tried to speak. He instinctively grabbed his own neck in fear of turning blue. Chaor smiled a bit, but Kaz was too caught up with what was happening to him to notice it.

Kaz was scared. Not only was Chaor going to think he was being a drama king, but the creature was probably going to kill him if he coudn't get it under control. The thought of being killed by his hero sent Kaz to his knees. His hands went from his neck to the floor. Kaz couldn't bring himself to look at Chaor while this was going on.

"Are you going to help me or not?" Chaor managed to hide his amusement. Kaz looked up at him and nodded quickly.