[Toshiko had spent her time since the end of the flood reading and hating everything, and personally she felt like she could have used a couple of days off from being a Warden before she could get back into the swing of things, but then the knock sounded and - well. No rest for the wicked. She got up off the sofa and headed to the door, ambivalent about the figure she found in the corridor.]
Rinzler. [And then it drifted back to her; he'd threatened Slick over nothing, escalating idle nonsense into a real possibility of violence. She sighed and stepped back.] Come in.
[He stepped inside with the caution due to new territory, looking beyond Toshiko at the interior of her cabin. There was no reason to suspect an ambush here, but the tick you stopped suspecting threats from anywhere was the tick you got derezzed.
His attention shifted back to his Warden within the moment. Reaching down, he detached an object--bound up awkwardly in shreds of cloth--from one thigh, then offered it to Toshiko hilt-first, with a bow.
[She hesitated for the smallest moment, because her life long before the Barge had taught her to be cautious about people holding knives anywhere near her - but it was an offer, not a threat. She accepted it with a nod and set it down on the counter.]
[He straightened, pantomiming a disarm of a hostile opponent. He'd taken it, of course. From who required a little more explanation, and he reached from the communications device he kept with him. A tap of the fingers brought up Slick's image on the screen, and he held it out for her perusal.]
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Why, you wanna do it again?
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Yes.
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Rinzler. [And then it drifted back to her; he'd threatened Slick over nothing, escalating idle nonsense into a real possibility of violence. She sighed and stepped back.] Come in.
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His attention shifted back to his Warden within the moment. Reaching down, he detached an object--bound up awkwardly in shreds of cloth--from one thigh, then offered it to Toshiko hilt-first, with a bow.
One of Rayne's knives.]
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Thank you. How did you get this?
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