Snippet #1894010

Ri'Jiish frowned. The fight he had started in the adjacent wing of the library had worked, but not as he had intented. The knight had sent the guards to deal with the fight, but had stayed put himself. This would make a grab-and-run slightly more difficult. He puzzled over this for a few moments, until he heard the knight mention sanctions and rules. That tore it. He dropped soundlessly to the floor, his cloak making only the slightest of rustles as he strode towards the knight and girl-child. Stopping a short ways away from them he spread his arms in mock-relief. His voice was low and had an odd accent to it, his Rs and Ss slightly rolled and elongated. He sounded to humans as though he was ill, or perhaps had sustained injury to his mouth at some point.

"There you are child! You have made us worried, running inside to play hide and seek from us! You'll come with us now, it is time to be heading home to eat, yes!"

With that said, Ri'Jiish held his hand out towards the child. Turning his hooded head towards the knight he thanked him.

"Ser, thanks to you for finding my little-one, yes. We have been looking all over. She is a handful, yes. Difficult to keep track of in such a busy city. I will watch her more closely next time, I promise ser-knight. Yes!"

He was close enough to the child to grab her now. He gently took her by the arm with a gloved hand and without waiting for a reply or rebuke started to walk towards the entry-way, all the while making remarks about how foolish she was and how lucky he was that he found her before someone off a less-reputable nature did. He even threw in a few words concerning the greatness of the guards and their knightly masters, just to show how unbelievable apprieciative he was. He looked down at the girl and quietly addressed her.

"Do not worry yes? Ri'Jiish will get us both out of here. Perhaps after he will get you food, yes? Do not worry little one."

He could see the door ahead of them now. He just needed to keep walking and hope the child caught on to what he was doing for her before the idiot knight realised what was going on. He needed to lay low, yes, but a child in distress was always going to be a priority for him. Curse his soft heart. They were almost there now. Just a few more feet.