[@Lady Amalthea] I made the edit. Sorry about that. I am still not totally familiar with battle mode.

Yeah, maybe in some ways it does seem a little out of character. Thalken's just unpredictable. This is how I view him: He is capable of talking, he just chooses not to most of the time. When he is more riled up, so to speak, like when having a gun held to his head, he will talk more. Always in that blunt, cold manner of his. The additional dialogue of explaining what happened to Millicent and Sir Kildragon was my attempt at developing him a bit more. I tried to keep it condensed and to the point the best I could. I figure after "talking" and "helping" this much in a short timeframe he will go back into the shadows for awhile. When he killed the Ryne and subsequently saved Millicent in the process, it gave him a glimpse of that better way of life that he wants for himself. So now he is testing the waters while his father is not around to condemn him for it. 

And [I]That’s not to say though that he could not easily disarm her and overpower her if he so desired to.[/I] was his internal thought processes not an attempt at me trying/wanting to do an autohit.