[What a wretched pack of scum, claiming this is some sort of innocent social engagement only to drug and manipulate strangers who couldn't possibly know better. Just how badly have they hurt Kalim already? How many times? What exactly have they forced him to do?
Jamil's voice is tightly controlled to force down the anger, but he does reach around Kalim's hands to take the pot--and set it on the next table over, spout pointedly facing away from them, rather than give into the unseemly impulse to fling it onto the floor and watch it shatter. Observation be damned, if the refreshments are drugged, then this is more important than remaining inconspicuous.]
How do you feel? You didn't breathe in any of the steam, did you?
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[What a wretched pack of scum, claiming this is some sort of innocent social engagement only to drug and manipulate strangers who couldn't possibly know better. Just how badly have they hurt Kalim already? How many times? What exactly have they forced him to do?
Jamil's voice is tightly controlled to force down the anger, but he does reach around Kalim's hands to take the pot--and set it on the next table over, spout pointedly facing away from them, rather than give into the unseemly impulse to fling it onto the floor and watch it shatter. Observation be damned, if the refreshments are drugged, then this is more important than remaining inconspicuous.]
How do you feel? You didn't breathe in any of the steam, did you?