and it helps that rand vaguely recognizes his face, too, from the regent's address. they hadn't spoken, of course, and silco hadn't done anything as dramatic or flashy as rand's attack on the regent. but he'd also had a lot of time floating around to do little more than people watch, so you know. he's pretty confident that this is one of the kenoma, here to whisk away a young girl to achamoth.
...a young girl who does not. seem very distressed by her circumstances. who in fact seems hostile to rand's arrival? he blinks, because this is already tilting sideways into one of those this may as well happen moments of his life. ]
I'm not here to hurt anyone, [ he says, despite the obviously lethal weapon in his hand, addressed mostly to jinx...though he keeps his eyes on silco, too. maybe a knife can't match a fire sword, but it can do damage — to rand or this girl. ] I want to help. Do you have any idea what kind of place this man wants to take you? What they'll do to you?
[ there's the question of the vial of kenoma, after all, that silco surely has on his person. ]
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and it helps that rand vaguely recognizes his face, too, from the regent's address. they hadn't spoken, of course, and silco hadn't done anything as dramatic or flashy as rand's attack on the regent. but he'd also had a lot of time floating around to do little more than people watch, so you know. he's pretty confident that this is one of the kenoma, here to whisk away a young girl to achamoth.
...a young girl who does not. seem very distressed by her circumstances. who in fact seems hostile to rand's arrival? he blinks, because this is already tilting sideways into one of those this may as well happen moments of his life. ]
I'm not here to hurt anyone, [ he says, despite the obviously lethal weapon in his hand, addressed mostly to jinx...though he keeps his eyes on silco, too. maybe a knife can't match a fire sword, but it can do damage — to rand or this girl. ] I want to help. Do you have any idea what kind of place this man wants to take you? What they'll do to you?
[ there's the question of the vial of kenoma, after all, that silco surely has on his person. ]