How had they been? What difference did it make? True, they were of Ivalice as sure as both he and Larsa were. But that hardly meant that he cared for them. Perhaps it was for whom they kept company with and perhaps for the utter disregard for the law that their kind had. Perhaps it was both at once. But he still had no inclination to leave Larsa alone and so he would stay.

But he would yet remain silent, and tend to the creatures milling restlessly around them, swords biting silently into the shadows.