Keenan buried her face in Scout's shirt while also keeping one eye on the tall dark man, who casually began to clean his blade.

"My name is Lucien. I am hired by the public populace to eliminate certain people from existence. I have no idea what this man's interest was in your friend here. He was simply my target. It was just fortunate that he happened to give me a reason to come after him."

"You think it was a [i]good[/i] thing that he attacked me?!" Keenan demanded incredulously.

"Calm down. You weren't injured." Lucien replied boredly, now sheathing his knife.