Illario's mind churns through it all. The Venatori. The Gods. Caterina. Lucanis. The hurt, the pain, the frustration, the satisfaction of a plan, the anxiety of the plan gone wrong. Sleepless nights and terrifying days, hungry and nauseous and frightened and holding on by his fingernails. It bubbles and turns inside him and becomes the familiar throbbing pain behind his eyes.
"Rook, please, be quiet." He says, the other man's words pounding on the door to his skull. There's too much, and he wants to scream or push over the table, but never once do his thoughts turn to hurting the man tied in the chair in front of him.
It takes a moment, several, truly, wasting more and more of the time he doesn't have. The Wardens. The Joining. The Calling. He knows very little about it, apart from the definitive end. He would be far from Treviso. Far from Antiva. Would Caterina or Lucanis bother following him to the ends of Thedas? Would they just let the dark roads do that work for them? But Lucanis has the ELuvians, he could get anywhere, a knife in the dark, the demon inside him would push and push-
But here? What chance does he have here? Caterina is loose somewhere, she could be anywhere-
"No where is safe for me, Grier. My family are my enemies, and if I spare them, then I have the Venatori to face." He sucks in a breath, not even realising he's used the man's real name. "The Venatori are here. In the Opera house. Killing them will give me more time."
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"Rook, please, be quiet." He says, the other man's words pounding on the door to his skull. There's too much, and he wants to scream or push over the table, but never once do his thoughts turn to hurting the man tied in the chair in front of him.
It takes a moment, several, truly, wasting more and more of the time he doesn't have. The Wardens. The Joining. The Calling. He knows very little about it, apart from the definitive end. He would be far from Treviso. Far from Antiva. Would Caterina or Lucanis bother following him to the ends of Thedas? Would they just let the dark roads do that work for them? But Lucanis has the ELuvians, he could get anywhere, a knife in the dark, the demon inside him would push and push-
But here? What chance does he have here? Caterina is loose somewhere, she could be anywhere-
"No where is safe for me, Grier. My family are my enemies, and if I spare them, then I have the Venatori to face." He sucks in a breath, not even realising he's used the man's real name. "The Venatori are here. In the Opera house. Killing them will give me more time."