The boy, Vaarkai's, outburst caused Janius to flinch. However, it was not the same as Deerz's violence. It was childish roughhousing, not the vicious anger from before.

Still, Janius did show some concern. [i]"Easy, now. No need to come to blows over it, you two."[/i] he said.

Janius stayed back to see how the moment would progress.

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"I'm sure I wouldn't, but..." Rhazii let out the rest of his breath a second later. "You said before you've killed a lot of people. Did you ever kill anyone you think you shouldn't have? I don't know what to do if that happens to me. It's..." He snapped his fingers in the air. "Like that. Once it's done, it's done. That makes me afraid."