I looked back up at her and said, "I see… That answers why, but still not what it is."
Her eyes shrunk a little as she hastily stammered slightly to tell me its name and importance, "I-It's called Fangstien Bonescend. It's a mineral that's not quite bone and not quite metal either, rather a form of both that has properties that make it attuned to us Naga's and us alone, making it useless in the hands of literally every other race."
"Our Scaled Oracles were the only ones who could find it, and the Veiled Gazers are the only ones allowed to distribute it. And even then, they have to get permission from the Emberin Ladies which could take weeks to-"
"Okay, I get it now." I stopped her before she could go on and on about many unnecessary details I didn't ask for nor need to know.
