okay but the “face it. you would have killed me.” conversation makes me so insane for xarrastarion. not only because it’s true (if they had met a decade prior it would have been) but because like. contextually they’re in this place where xarrai is fairly certain when they walk through those doors it will be the end. they’ve tried and failed (they think) to get him to see reason and have sort of resigned themself to the idea that they’re going to try one more time and then they’re going to let him go and something about the way he tries to avoid saying it that makes them both enraged and… so sad.












