[CupcakeDolly]

Rue stopped pacing long enough to stare at the old man. She was still deciding what she thought of him - he held power in his weakened frame, but didn't seem intent on using it for any particular purpose, be it helpful or hindering to her own. She didn't bother reaching too deeply within his mind, only far enough to sense that he took a non-malicious and non-sexual interest in her, which was all that she had any use in knowing.

Hearing the blind man speak - she had been wondering when he would stop pretending to sleep - Rue laughed and shook her head. "You realize that those things down there are simply lifeless meat? And even before that, they had been replaced by something that was already inhuman." She smiled sweetly at him. "Be careful, or somebody might think to use your silly sentimentalities against you, assassin."