"I should've known it'd be you, Greenhorn..."
3. My character stabs yours in the back - literally.
They’d gotten into a skirmish again. Bandits of some sort, and fairly easy. The priest had been acting a bit odd as of late, but Gil had merely brushed it off as his usual moodiness.
The last bandit fell, simply enough, and the older man brushed his hands off. “Alright, Greenhorn, we’re done here.”
"Not yet." It was the first time he’d spoken that day, voice oddly level and casual, but with an underlying icy steel to it. "There’s still one more." And without warning, or a hint of recognition, he drove his whittling knife between Gilbert’s shoulder blades, twisting it through the vertebrae with his enhanced strength.
As the alchemist fell, looking up at him in shock, Nicholas the Punisher merely stared down at him, almost curiously. His eyes were cold.
"One more…" He raised the knife again.