"...I am truly glad that they will die by your hands."
The empty field was barren, but it now seemed even more as Riley returned Neri's gaze — Riley had felt completely vulnerable before. Katherine, The Crimson Paladin, Pirate Queen Xra, Marleen, and now Neri.
All of them all had one thing in common — they were able to bypass all of Riley's mental defenses and could read through him completely. Either through feelings and emotions, he thought he didn't have, through his disguises, through his surface thoughts, through his memories, and now…
…seemingly just straight through him.
Riley is uncomfortable, that much is clear to him due to his eyebrows lowering on their own; something that doesn't really happen much for him unless he is truly affected deeply.
He could not even see anything else anymore, only Neri's sorrowful eyes and the tears they lay.
