Her answers pleased him, clearly, as his smirk broadened wide and almost threateningly, as if he was on the verge of salivating or plotting some other evil for Viola.<br/><br/>"A wizard?" he seemed to chuckle darkly, liking the sound of that even better. "Without your books you are... defenseless, no?" he asked, a thumb beginning to hook under her bodice and slide a nail along the soft skin of her breast.<br/><br/>"So they stripped you, and they took you, did they?" he asked as well, his tone overtly lurid as though he was insinuating about more than her mere possessions and capture. "Not a virgin then?" He looked back at the slaver, who paled and laughed nervously, apparently caught in a lie as though he had claimed otherwise.<br/><br/>Turning back, he continued, "your skills might be dangerous. Such magic is hard to trust in a stranger's hand. Perhaps you can serve him in other ways?"