[i]"If I may ask, what do you intend to do with the citizen?"[/i]

“Hmm? I can’t tell if you’re honestly being serious here…or if it’s just a bad joke. Why, I’m afraid we’ll be forced to terminate the citizen Elliot my friend. Direct contact in assisting the Catalyst is punishable by death you know. Orders from the big man himself.”

As Spencer gave Elliot a partway shrug on the notion of mercy, Giltwith stepped forward in hopes of remedying the outcome.

“With all due respect, must we do things so…cruelly? Surely the citizen deserves a hearing in court?”

“Oh? I’d expect you of all people to understand this particular line of duty Giltwith. You know, seeing as you’re a Knight and all that good stuff. Or…am I wrong?”

Giltwith remained silent after that.

[i]"If I knew who you were, I wouldn't let you stay in my house in the first place. Which as we can now see, was obviously a huge mistake. And what you're saying now doesn't explain why I got all this crap happening to me."[/i]

Kiara dismissed off Trixie’s outrage with little more than a small wave of the hand.

“Let me finish. I left cause I found out the Imperium isn’t what it’s cut out to be. Actually, I could just leave you in the dark forever, you know? Not my problem if you find yourself being sacrificed to some primordial deity by the end of the night.”

Kiara said this lightly, knowing that [i]that[/i] statement would no doubt capture the AI’s attention to listen.