Tark rose to his feet and looked at Kree and at the stallion and tiger and eagle.
"Before you judge, brothers, remember that this outlander is the last thread by which we may still draw Barin out of danger!"
Kree looked somberly at the great wolf. "It is your love for my son and daughter that speaks, Tark. These outlanders and their weapons are our greatest peril."
The stallion, Hatha, looked at Nelson with fiery eyes and Nelson heard his savage thought.
"This man should die. He seeks to help Shan Kar make L'Lan like his outer world, a place where our races are driven, enslaved brutes."
The raging thought of the great tiger Quorr instantly supported Hatha.
"Blood of our dead calls for vengeance! These outlanders have brought death into our land and must taste death!"
Nsharra's thought interrupted, as she rose from her chair.
"Yet this man sinned in ignorance! He knew nothing of the Brotherhood in all his life till he came to L'Lan."
The great eagle turned his head to the others and Nelson barely caught the swift flash of Ei's thought.