[ the words have an immediate effect, the tension releasing from her shoulders a tad. she looks ridiculous, she's certain - an ill-fitting shirt, her hair down and ruffled by the wind, with no shoes and a bandaged midsection.

but kaz brekker had just apologized to her, so inej imagines that makes her the scariest thing in the barrel. probably, anyway. ]

If you ever call me something like that again, you will join Oomen at the bottom of the sea.

[ it's said crisply, jawline set - she doesn't say whether she accepts the apology or not, because it really does not matter. he had apologized; whether she accepts it depends on him, not her.

but once she says that, she leans her back against the pile of ropes she's half-perched on, tone shifting from firm to one of mild exasperation. ]

You did not need to remove his eye.

[ she would not disclose her source.

it was jesper. ]