[Oh, better be careful here. Sholmes takes a step back, guard up]
...I don't recommend you attempt to. Is it truly what you wish to do?
[This definitely has to be the work of a ghoul, and although the rules behind how these work eluded Sholmes, them being like nothing he had encountered before, he's trying so hard to figure out what's the way to deal with them. Getting into physical violence doesn't seem like the way, but walking away and leaving alone can't be it either.
Still, in the eyes of someone supernaturally angry, the refusal to step away can be taken as defiance, and if the worst happens, he would have to defend himself, he decides]
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...I don't recommend you attempt to. Is it truly what you wish to do?
[This definitely has to be the work of a ghoul, and although the rules behind how these work eluded Sholmes, them being like nothing he had encountered before, he's trying so hard to figure out what's the way to deal with them. Getting into physical violence doesn't seem like the way, but walking away and leaving alone can't be it either.
Still, in the eyes of someone supernaturally angry, the refusal to step away can be taken as defiance, and if the worst happens, he would have to defend himself, he decides]