[ She watches them both defer to her, which just has amusement flitting across her face as she turns her attention back to the man she's got pinned against the wall.
She doesn't even need to threaten him much before he's babbling out excuses, but that's not really what she's looking for here. Luckily, he's as susceptible to the intimidation tactics he's clearly used to wielding himself. Or maybe he's just not so used to having it turned around on him like this.
Either way, it's not difficult to work him around to answering what they're really here searching for. Even if he sounds genuinely horrified at being accused of being involved with the disappearances - even by association. ]
We don't deal in that sort of trade. We was just looking for valuables you had on you, we don't steal people!
[ Which is a start, but it's not until she locates the blade tucked in a hidden pocket and withdraws it that he starts to give her something interesting. ] Look, we don't know who's involved in that, but everyone in Nott knows people is goin missin'. Everyone's watchin' their backs and suspicious of anything unusual. We mighta seen something, tho. A mark we made, young bloke who looked like he might have a trinket or two worth lifting. We were following him and he turned down an alley - one we knew would make a good place for an ambush. So we sets it up, but when we get there, he's gone. Poof. No sign of him, like he never been there. That might be normal where you lot come from, with those fancy mages, but that ain't something folks down here do.
[ He sounds like he's telling her the truth, and in fact sounds kinda spooked from what he relays. Keeping him pinned a moment longer, she glances over her shoulder at Reno and Kyle, arching an eyebrow to silently ask their opinion, or if there was anything they wanted to press him on. Kyle knows more about these streets than she does, at the very least, and she suspects he'd be a better judge of what they're being told. ]
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She doesn't even need to threaten him much before he's babbling out excuses, but that's not really what she's looking for here. Luckily, he's as susceptible to the intimidation tactics he's clearly used to wielding himself. Or maybe he's just not so used to having it turned around on him like this.
Either way, it's not difficult to work him around to answering what they're really here searching for. Even if he sounds genuinely horrified at being accused of being involved with the disappearances - even by association. ]
We don't deal in that sort of trade. We was just looking for valuables you had on you, we don't steal people!
[ Which is a start, but it's not until she locates the blade tucked in a hidden pocket and withdraws it that he starts to give her something interesting. ] Look, we don't know who's involved in that, but everyone in Nott knows people is goin missin'. Everyone's watchin' their backs and suspicious of anything unusual. We mighta seen something, tho. A mark we made, young bloke who looked like he might have a trinket or two worth lifting. We were following him and he turned down an alley - one we knew would make a good place for an ambush. So we sets it up, but when we get there, he's gone. Poof. No sign of him, like he never been there. That might be normal where you lot come from, with those fancy mages, but that ain't something folks down here do.
[ He sounds like he's telling her the truth, and in fact sounds kinda spooked from what he relays. Keeping him pinned a moment longer, she glances over her shoulder at Reno and Kyle, arching an eyebrow to silently ask their opinion, or if there was anything they wanted to press him on. Kyle knows more about these streets than she does, at the very least, and she suspects he'd be a better judge of what they're being told. ]