Behind the mask, Shin's eyes narrowed in suspicion. Far too much wind was moving around inside the cabins of this train, supernatural abilities were to be expected but he was dealing with a mudman here. Air based abilities? Or temperature. This kind of science wasn't his thing, that was left to other people with bigger senses of self imporatance than him. 

Now the skeleton was talking about how it might be a child, and how harm shouldn't come to it. How he had no ill will, so on and so forth. You know, the usual deal with people who don't really want to fight. Shin, however, was having none of it. "Okay, so, I'm here to either kill it or dismember it. If you think that you can help me do that without winding up in my way, that's peachy keen. We'll be just fine working like that. However, I'm not quite certain you understand how much destruction is about to happen. Because you're implying that anyone but myself will wind up out of this situation unscathed."

Shin stepped through the doorway, getting a good look at the little psychopath. Bleeding out already, probably something to do with self defense. Not a good natural defense, most predators track their pray by wounding them and smelling the blood. So that's no good for escaping. Maybe intimidation? 

Animals might be dissuaded by it, but humans wouldn't. Let's go with that one. "Hey, you should stop hurting yourself. I'm about to hurt you plenty, understand? I'm going to take a piece of you away, and never return it. How do you feel about that? If you're fine with that, I won't have to even kill you, I'll just take a chunk of you and go."

The assassin turned towards Skallagrim, tilting his head upwards to look him in the eye sockets. "And what about you? You remind me a lot of my previous marks." Shin paused, cracking an inhuman smile behind his mask. "Because you're a skeleton. Get it? Because corpses decompose?"

The assassin was a bit upset by one thing, and just one thing. [i]How did he know that I'm an assassin? I mean, the mask makes me suspicious, but other than that there's no give. Can he read minds?[/i]