Amata, who is well aware of Koschei's love of pointy things and has seen him in a rage that she's certain would have been homicidal if she hasn't been there to object, manages not to let her expression dissolve from pleasantly intent to baffled at Bianca's description of him. But it takes some effort.
She can't tell if Bianca has put her warden on a bit of a pedestal, or if Bianca assumes the poor dumb human has, and is screwing with her.
Maybe that's not fair, and it's neither. Koschei is very good at encouraging the sensible option - on his better days. Amata has not seen Koschei at his worst, she knows, but she has seen him in a wider range of moods and mental states than most.
"He can be," she agrees, fairly smoothly. "He was. It did take months of alternating between fighting and running for our lives before enough of the right people people were willing to listen."
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She can't tell if Bianca has put her warden on a bit of a pedestal, or if Bianca assumes the poor dumb human has, and is screwing with her.
Maybe that's not fair, and it's neither. Koschei is very good at encouraging the sensible option - on his better days. Amata has not seen Koschei at his worst, she knows, but she has seen him in a wider range of moods and mental states than most.
"He can be," she agrees, fairly smoothly. "He was. It did take months of alternating between fighting and running for our lives before enough of the right people people were willing to listen."