Gareth
"You think I'm blind, or deaf?" Gareth snapped angrily. "I saw the way you were looking at me - same way as the girl. I don't know what the hell I did to offend you, but knock off the squinting and the whispering. I lived here for years, and I put my neck on the line to help this city, same as you. Don't lecture me on respect, boy, when you whisper about me
right in front of me
and then accuse me of eavesdropping when I overhear something you are saying
about me
. For a highborn boy, you know nothing about manners. I'm telling you right now that if you want to get anywhere with people, knock off your damn attitude."
The guards who were observing didn't seem to have any sympathy for Aureus. Gareth was, after all, a friend of theirs. He frequently came to chat them up, even buying them drinks from time to time or offering them discounts on weapons and armour. He did not have a reputation as a man who turned to unprovoked anger.
Aureus's attempt to blatantly turn to them and try to rally them would only lose them even further. It gave Aureus the appearance of someone who was deliberately playing it up for the crowd, which therefore suggested he did not truly mean what he said. Gareth, however, was acting as though he was almost oblivious to the onlookers.
His assertion that he never said Gareth was untrustworthy, while in the same breath admitting that he said he didn't trust Gareth, was also rather strange.
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Joric Ironfist
In Joric's opinion, all of Hovrec's arguments were moot. Issues like the size of the steps were minor obstacles at best, that wouldn't actually matter once they were on top of the walls. The only one that seemed to have any merit was his opinion regarding the attack on Ice Mountain, and on that Joric turned against him angrily. "I know that, but we 'ave to try!"
Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.
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