A cold rush of instinctive terror floods through Lemm as the shadow ascends towards him. He is going to get himself killed today, and it's going to be over one miserable corpse in a corpse pit.
If there's anything Lemm knows about pits, it's how to dig himself one. Doubling down on the last dregs of resolve he's got means doubling down on the self-righteous Relic Seeker thing. He just doesn't know how to be any other way.
"N-now don't look at me like that," he forces out, managing to sound scolding even though he's on the back foot and barely that. He can't seem to decide which set of eyes to focus on, so he just keeps flicking between them. "You're not the only one who thinks these scholars deserve a good kicking. You wouldn't believe the things I've read on the way here."
Lemm backs up another step. And another. His back hits a spiked railing, and his foot slips briefly in the wet and he grabs hold of the metal to steady himself. For a split second the annoyed expression slips to reveal the fear he's masking, but he recovers quick.
"It won't do any good. And it doesn't look good." Lemm informs them. "What do you want me to think of you, if that's what you've been doing up here? What sort of behaviour is that for a Relic Seeker's assistant?" Never mind that he kicked a body into the Waterways. That's different! "And stop looking at me like I'm next!"
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Date: 2022-11-08 04:30 pm (UTC)If there's anything Lemm knows about pits, it's how to dig himself one. Doubling down on the last dregs of resolve he's got means doubling down on the self-righteous Relic Seeker thing. He just doesn't know how to be any other way.
"N-now don't look at me like that," he forces out, managing to sound scolding even though he's on the back foot and barely that. He can't seem to decide which set of eyes to focus on, so he just keeps flicking between them. "You're not the only one who thinks these scholars deserve a good kicking. You wouldn't believe the things I've read on the way here."
Lemm backs up another step. And another. His back hits a spiked railing, and his foot slips briefly in the wet and he grabs hold of the metal to steady himself. For a split second the annoyed expression slips to reveal the fear he's masking, but he recovers quick.
"It won't do any good. And it doesn't look good." Lemm informs them. "What do you want me to think of you, if that's what you've been doing up here? What sort of behaviour is that for a Relic Seeker's assistant?" Never mind that he kicked a body into the Waterways. That's different! "And stop looking at me like I'm next!"