You weren't the one publicly challenging strangers over a self-induced slight, Gilia. He's a grown man. If he wants to pick a fight, perhaps you should allow him. It might instill some humility — or, failing that, caution.

( he doubts it. cesare borgie gives the impression of a man with a skull too thick for much of consequence to penetrate.

again, he reminds himself that fighting him wouldn't be worth it. )

With John Gaius; she won, of course. ( not that he'd had a moment's doubt. )