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“I’ll open the safe.” Arsene said finally, no witty remark or scheme this time…Alessio wasn’t sure how to respond to that…Carefully, the robber set the lady down as gently as if she were a queen. What was Arsene? He just couldn’t gauge him, just how dangerous or amoral was he? He…seemed to care, but not about his own life or – Alessio shook off his thoughts it was just giving him a headache.

“After I open the safe, we’ll leave the ferry.” Please yes. He was so done with boat rides…

Which reminded him.

“Before we leave,” he said “You should know that we’re being hunted, assumably.”

Actually that sounded stupid now that he’d said that, of course they were both being hunted they were both outlaws in some degree! He just wasn’t 100% percent sure that maniac from before was hunting them specifically or just snapped…

“I mean, someone made an attempt to kill me while you were gone so…” He said, sort’ve casually like he didn’t know how important the information was to Arsene. After all nobody actually cared if he died unless it inconvenienced them in some way – he was just so used to being so careful with his words…

“What does he look like?” Arsene asked. This was a question he was accustomed to answering with military preciseness.

“6 feet, give or take, sturdy build, masked and dressed completely in black.” He couldn’t miss a single detail, he couldn’t miss anything tha – he tried not to tense, or overthink. “He seemed to have a katana but he didn’t really use it. He was using powers but I couldn’t identify of what nature. I…I think he may have a plague. Not like the one you faked, but an actual one which can drive you into madness.”

Now he really blew it now. Everyone knew he had a particular phobia of the windigo fever and any weakness you betrayed would be exploited, he didn’t keep his voice completely even and now – he noiseless took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

Arsene hadn’t done anything to him…well, except kidnap him, knock him unconscious, make him party to a robbery…The point was! Arsene hadn’t done anything truly malicious to him yet!

Arsene sighed “I don’t know who he is. Let’s just get off this boat.”

But you’re supposed to know or act mysterious about it to pretend you do! Alessio almost relaxed just a little, being told straight up he didn’t know, he wasn’t used to being kept in the loop for anything. Not without a price.

Alessio rubbed his arms, mind spinning to reevaluate Arsene’s character.

Maybe Arsene was ok. Either way they were stuck together for now at least, for better or worse. And he’d said Nithel had been with his brother, Alessio had to find him. Maybe he can help…

Yeah Alessio was not that trusting yet.

The robber was a lot quieter than normal, Alessio knew he had to be upset. He still didn’t know what to do, should he try to comfort Arsene? What was in the safe, anyway, he wanted to know…

Finally, Alessio cleared his throat uncomfortably.

“Thanks for saving my life earlier…I guess…probably…” He mumbled, fumbling with the stupid blanket he’d brought this whole way here. He loosely tucked it over the unconscious lady’s limp form. He made a motion to pull his hood closer but caught himself and chewed his bottom lip.

“Soo…who did we just render unconscious…?” Just curious. People do this all the time, right?

 

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