A rueful expression at the long familliar drag of fangs on metal.<br/><br/>"I wonder sometimes if it would be worth feeding them mice, but I'm not sure that would work exactly."<br/><br/>He paused.<br/><br/>"I suppose I could feed you mice on their behalf? But it lends to bizarre imagery of them in place of a plate of grapes fed to you as you recline on a divan."<br/><br/>It was almost an actual joke. He even smiled to Sthenae, if in that usual calmly bemused way when his smiles were sincere, though there was a warmth to it all the same.<br/><br/>"As for the caravan.. I can always just stay inside the main wagon, keep it covered, I'll emerge when the fight ensues, that sort of thing."<br/><br/>