[ He almost puts enough effort in that to make it sound sincerely apologetic, but not quite--either too exhausted or too impetuous to bother. Lavi reaches for the back of his neck, a common tick he's manufactured to make himself seem more anxious than he really is.
(His heart beat, in fact, is steadier than it has been in hours, cool and calm. Wariness and paranoia are old friends to him and he falls in line with them easily.)
Thus rubbing at his nape, his smile widens a little more in an artificial plead for forgiveness. ]
RAC business and such. We're not paid to be talkative about our warrants.
[ Not that he thinks it was really a request so much as a thinly veiled demand, but even at the mercy of another's charity, he can rely on technicalities and statutes to get him out of unnecessary conversations.
Especially with the likes of you, he thinks. ]
But if the warrant holder wants to tell you about it, I won't stop ya. You picked him up with me.
As for something better..
[ It's not, he knows, the wisest move. It is not a move of caution or calculated intent--it's exhausted youth showing itself in brash colors. An unwillingness to leave an itch alone despite knowing it'll surely bleed and scab if he scratches too hard. ]
You ever hear of Sugar Point? Place not too far from where you got us. Nasty business, what happened.
no subject
[ He almost puts enough effort in that to make it sound sincerely apologetic, but not quite--either too exhausted or too impetuous to bother. Lavi reaches for the back of his neck, a common tick he's manufactured to make himself seem more anxious than he really is.
(His heart beat, in fact, is steadier than it has been in hours, cool and calm. Wariness and paranoia are old friends to him and he falls in line with them easily.)
Thus rubbing at his nape, his smile widens a little more in an artificial plead for forgiveness. ]
RAC business and such. We're not paid to be talkative about our warrants.
[ Not that he thinks it was really a request so much as a thinly veiled demand, but even at the mercy of another's charity, he can rely on technicalities and statutes to get him out of unnecessary conversations.
Especially with the likes of you, he thinks. ]
But if the warrant holder wants to tell you about it, I won't stop ya. You picked him up with me.
As for something better..
[ It's not, he knows, the wisest move. It is not a move of caution or calculated intent--it's exhausted youth showing itself in brash colors. An unwillingness to leave an itch alone despite knowing it'll surely bleed and scab if he scratches too hard. ]
You ever hear of Sugar Point? Place not too far from where you got us. Nasty business, what happened.