[Belthazar just got schooled, and that last statement clinches it. His long ears lower and pin against his dark hair.]
... well.
[There are times he felt that death was a mercy. And that hurts, because... it's the truth, and he has to look away. He did some awful things to survive. Sometimes he had wished he was dead. But then he'd think of his sister and her smile, and how hard she had worked to keep them both fed after their parents were killed, and then he'd have to get up and keep going.
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... well.
[There are times he felt that death was a mercy. And that hurts, because... it's the truth, and he has to look away. He did some awful things to survive. Sometimes he had wished he was dead. But then he'd think of his sister and her smile, and how hard she had worked to keep them both fed after their parents were killed, and then he'd have to get up and keep going.
How many years had he eaten rats?]
Y-you can keep your knives, [he mutters.]