[Zelos trails off with a frustrated grumble, wholly unused to being flustered or at a loss for words, then carries on with a small explosion of breath:]
No half-elf I know talks to the guards or -- or anyone like that, like you don't care. Aren't you scared someone will have you arrested? Aren't you -- aren't you worried they'll find me and I'll just tell them it's your fault?
[Which is an idea that has not, right until this moment, occurred to Zelos. Now that it has, he finds he wishes he didn't bring it up at all. Yuan didn't need to help him, because Zelos is only nine years old, and everyone else in the palace is a much greater threat to a half-elf. But he did anyway, and Zelos isn't going to repay him by being a fink.]
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[Zelos trails off with a frustrated grumble, wholly unused to being flustered or at a loss for words, then carries on with a small explosion of breath:]
No half-elf I know talks to the guards or -- or anyone like that, like you don't care. Aren't you scared someone will have you arrested? Aren't you -- aren't you worried they'll find me and I'll just tell them it's your fault?
[Which is an idea that has not, right until this moment, occurred to Zelos. Now that it has, he finds he wishes he didn't bring it up at all. Yuan didn't need to help him, because Zelos is only nine years old, and everyone else in the palace is a much greater threat to a half-elf. But he did anyway, and Zelos isn't going to repay him by being a fink.]