Teddybear

Kivvien steered the cart in silence.

"I don't punish my eyes for mis-seeing, nor do I know anyone who does."

"And what do you learn from a beating? There is no benefit to violence in response to honest mistakes, ever. It only risks your health and the health of your ...

"You deserved none of it."

"Because that wretched man doesn't have the right to abuse anything with the ability to feel pain. If you don't want to stay with me so be it, but I ...

Kivvien led the way quickly out to the cart, helping Hieronymus up into a nook where he could still see without being seen, casting notice-me-nots in his paranoia all the ...

"It's just a stasis spell, it'll wear off in about an hour. Now, to the cart please."

Kivvien added a temporary stasis spell on top. "Come one," he said, gesturing for Hieronymus to follow him out the door.

He flexed his hand as he considered it. No one would believe the old man anyhow. Kivvien clenched his teeth and cast a counterspell to the ones he had cast ...

Kivvien hesitated.

Kivvien glanced up. He debated finishing him off. "We're leaving, now."

"Of course not!" Kivvien was appalled at the suggestion, "Just, please, we have to leave now ."

"Either transmutation or transference, I'll be able to get around the homunculus laws if we just successfully wipe out the demon hoard."

"You can leave him, and you should. And I can, I can figure out how."

"Just...just come with me. I'll get you a human body eventually, for now just come with me."