by Glenn » Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:05 am
"Kerrak's with us. We're in this together." He was on their side as much as he was on anyone's at least. This, a general declaration. Rhaena was safe (and Glenn was giving her what strength he could). Kerrak had been pulled back from the brink. Suede was... well, he was Suede, really, and there were always possibilities there but so many more risks. Aleksei would provide quite the distraction to him, though. Perhaps he and Jirai both. 'His friend,' who called him 'the tailor.' Suede Roschen likely didn't have very many people who weren't out to kill him. Perhaps there was an invitation, of sorts, long overdue.
His gaze went back around the room quickly. "Agnie." No jokes, no agony, nothing of the sort. Instead, a nod for the headless body. "Cut off its hand. Even if we burn the rest, you're going to need that. Are you on decent terms with Kacela?" They needed that thing tracked and she was the uppity, mangy creature to do it. "Work it out with Aleksei which of you is on better terms with her, and then, deliver that hand and a brief summary of the situation. Leave my name out of it." Wait, they hadn't seen what he had. "The head," to Agnie, to Aleksei, to Suede even. "It CRAWLED away." Still, he was giving out orders already. To everyone but Rhaena. He was rather born for this, to boss people around liberally. Also, if he was going to send someone after the... the head, best it be someone he found expendable, like the werewolf. They might even cut off a finger of it and give it to someone else, one of the dragons, maybe. He'd ask Agnie if she had any ideas later. "Aleksei, past... a potential neutralization option, you're shifted off of the Catch situation," for he had every intention of giving Cinnabar a chance to deal with that, and wanted to keep the silver-haired man FAR, FAR from this. "I need you and your expertise on this matter." He nodded though. Aleksei could take care of the body, past the hand. "I trust in your judgment in what can be kept here and what must be destroyed, but do burn the rest of the body." Compromise between Agnie, Kerrak, and Aleksei, then.
"Kerrak, we're going to get you to the Remedium now. I'm sorry about your servants. I'm sorry that your peace has been disturbed. We'll squeeze some justice out of this, together, or at least.. finality." And after that, if he wanted it all ended, then Glenn's blade would pierce his heart, gladly. "The carriage Rhaena has been using isn't far." Though, for discretion's sake, they hadn't parked it exactly in front either. It made sense Agnie wouldn't think of that. Carts were much more quickly on the mind of dirt-farmer girls, after all.
And now, finally, his unfaltering tone seemed to waver. "Roschen, then. Oh, I don't know. You tell me and quickly. While we exit, if you please. Let's leave Aleksei to his work and get Kerrak to where he might best make it through the night alive." Then almost as an afterthought, to the tailor. "You're not riding in the carriage with us, no matter what."