His clenched teeth slipped into an unnatural grin, tooth scratching against tooth like a series of broken gears. His hand had finished bleeding, but he could still feel the sticky blood between his fingers as he tightened the grip on the knife.
He was not going to strike first. He was not going to be the unstable one, the man flinging wine across the table.
"Send your children," he says. Hisses. "The three of you can learn together."
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His clenched teeth slipped into an unnatural grin, tooth scratching against tooth like a series of broken gears. His hand had finished bleeding, but he could still feel the sticky blood between his fingers as he tightened the grip on the knife.
He was not going to strike first. He was not going to be the unstable one, the man flinging wine across the table.
"Send your children," he says. Hisses. "The three of you can learn together."