Shady

Because I’m a greedy fool who never should have gone to the North in the first place. “I had my wife sell me, to get enough money to ransom my ...

Pratik longed to be honest. Actually. He could be half honest, now that he thought of it. “From the East,” he answered. “I don’t know where. There were a lot ...

“That’s a pretty name,” he murmured, but moved past the compliment quickly. Compliments became gross when lingered on. At least when a man was involved. “Where do you hail from?”

“Aren,” he said. “Aren Presha… and you?”

“I’m not a knight, but I have the blood of rapists on my hands,” Pratik answered honestly. “And I don’t feel the need to wash it off. My hands are ...

His eyes traveled to her clothes, partially ripped and on the floor by the foot of her bed. He wasn’t going to ask her if she wanted him to bring ...

“Men are rarely kind,” Pratik murmured. “I’m a man myself and even I don’t trust the men I meet. I don’t blame you in the least. So many men are ...

“I want nothing from you,” Pratik said gently. “I want to offer you whatever kindness I can. To help, if there even is such a way, given the hell you’ve ...

Pratik took a deep breath and then let it out slowly. This was one of the exceedingly rare times he wished he was a woman. That he’d be able to ...

(Night!) His throat constricted, but he forced his expression to be gentle. This girl needed his gentleness, not his rage. That was for Tarr. He had to compartmentalize. To be ...

"It's me," Pratik murmured, shutting the door behind himself, but not taking even a single step towards the bed. "I won't hurt you. I swear it on the altar of ...

(ooh okay cool!) Pratik had made it when the door was closed, so he intentionally strode down the hall that Tarr wouldn't walk past when he left. Pratik's fingernails dug ...

( Is it the same girl that only spoke an obscure language? Nortung? I can't remember the right names haha but I remember we had Pratik talk to a girl ...

Pratik inclined his head solemnly. "Yes, sir." He'd been planning to go find the girl later, anyway -- not to wring her for information, but to comfort her as much ...

Good. Pratik had been searching for a secret lever to get to whatever hole Utrid had been creeping out of when he discovered Pratik in the first place. He was ...