[As Liem stands just paces away from Dokja, trying to persuade him into going on his way, the atmosphere takes on tension like a raincloud, threatening to break at any moment. He doesn't know what the man is willing to do in the service of repaying his debt, but after Hayame assaulted him in Venera during the innocence sickness those months ago, Liem doesn't doubt that further violence might be on the table.

His fist tightens warily around the grip of his bow.]

Nothing that you could now undo.

[He doesn't want to talk about the weeks he spent in the Citadel's dungeons, or think about what he endured there. What was done to him doesn't matter. Only the result is important: his obedience to the Regent and his newfound belief in their mission. And he can't prove either while he's being interrogated by a swordsman with an unwarranted obsession.]

You should go to your colleagues; they at least want to be saved. Should you really be delaying by talking to me?

[After all, time is very much of the essence for them.]