[Equius did nothing in all the time that the elder troll didn’t; rather, he just stood there, waiting for what would happen to happen. It was a sort of habit he had picked up in other dealings with adult trolls, since whenever they came around it usually meant that they would be able to out-muscle him anyway. He was no stranger to awkward silences, though, and had gotten to the point of thinking “maybe if this goes on for long enough I can leave and he won’t kill me” before Signless did something again. The smile, predictably, was totally ineffective at calming his nerves.]
T-this isn’t for fun...
[He just got. Excited. About arcane parts of an extremely dangerous killing machine. That’s all that happened, honest, it’s a Zahhak thing, pops up all the time. You know about the Zahhaks and their tinker tendencies, right, Sufferer? Don’t you?]
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[Equius did nothing in all the time that the elder troll didn’t; rather, he just stood there, waiting for what would happen to happen. It was a sort of habit he had picked up in other dealings with adult trolls, since whenever they came around it usually meant that they would be able to out-muscle him anyway. He was no stranger to awkward silences, though, and had gotten to the point of thinking “maybe if this goes on for long enough I can leave and he won’t kill me” before Signless did something again. The smile, predictably, was totally ineffective at calming his nerves.]
T-this isn’t for fun...
[He just got. Excited. About arcane parts of an extremely dangerous killing machine. That’s all that happened, honest, it’s a Zahhak thing, pops up all the time. You know about the Zahhaks and their tinker tendencies, right, Sufferer? Don’t you?]