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"So you would think." Ronin says, and with a sudden grin he unwraps his scarf from around his neck to reach across and sling it about Tobi's instead. "There - something to hide in, the next time you have to make a house visit." He winks. It's true that Ronin has most definitely entangled himself with Safrin, and he's no longer trying to get out of that. No, now he's playing the game in earnest. And perhaps he enjoys it more than he cares to admit; such is the cost of binding oneself to the Lady of the Stars. Cian, though? The Eye doesn't frighten Ronin. He will most certainly outwit the Star, but Ronin has always been good at speaking plain and cutting through a serpent's tongue. (Granted, he's never known a serpent to be quite so silent as Cian). His thoughts are still on this when Tobi calls him Captain Taliesin and he almost stumbles over a bit of gravel, the laugh that escapes him one of nostalgia and near longing. "No one has called me that for a very long time," he says. TALIESIN they said it's all been done but they haven't seen the best of me