@wittyrogue sent “I know that what you want to do is the stupidest fucking thing possible, but I need you to not do that.”
“I asked if you had a better idea,” Inara teases.
She’s still going to do it, holding a blade up to the light and watching it shine sharp against the outline of the window behind them before tucking it into its place there at her waist. She smiles over at him, as if attempting to offer him some kind of comfort.
“He’s just a person,” she hums, perhaps trying to convince herself. “He bleeds, and he’ll die.”
If she can get close. Which… is harder than it sounds. Especially at a party full of a hundred assassins.
“It would be rude to pass up such a lovely invitation,” she continues, glancing at the invite on the table, all frilly and sealed with wax that glittered. “I mean, he even used fancy paper.”