[The casual declaration (and subsequent skirting by) of the mention of friends surprises him. They have not really had any major disagreements, and yet.

It is strange to him all the same.]

I would only need to kill you if you hurt someone, or killed them.

[He isn’t particularly worried about Augustine doing that intentionally, so there is no need for the violence on his end.]

I don’t have anything to offer you in that way. Aren’t there better friends here for you to make? Many of them don’t seem to mind dhampirs at all. It isn’t like our own worlds.