Instead of the hatred I was hoping to hear in his voice, all I hear is respect, an awe of Cassius but it only sounds like an advantage to me and I take it, scowling at him.
"Then you of all people should know better than this." I keep my voice steady. "You know what my father is. You know what he can do. And you are sitting here holding his daughter and her mate hostage. When he learns of it, and he will, there is no wall in this place high enough to keep him out. You are signing your own death and that of your son.”
His reaction is not as I anticipated. He looks at me for a moment, completely expressionless and then he laughs again, that high cracked sound, and he claps his ruined hand against his knee in mock applause.
"Oh, that is good. That is very good. Spoken just as he would spea
