"Comfort," Cain quickly replied, "is irrelevant. It was nothing more than information she had requested in asking if I was okay. I was not. I told her what my status was. Nothing more." He was more like an object than a person. A talking statue would have more personality, but still there was a hinted flutter upon the pronoun replacing Amune's name. As if she and everything she was perplexed him. It was like there was some kind of attachment he had to the girl that he didn't fully understand, let alone accept as real. "I am not a child. I understand the difference between deception and withholding information. I am withholding an immense amount of information from you all as we speak. Whatever Amuné asks for, however, she will receive. This is why I allowed that man to live instead of killing or gravely injuring him, as is the purpose of a fight. I could have ended him, completely free of magic, but I am under strict order [i]not[/i] to harm people." 

His words might have come off as hostile if he had any kind of tone. [@shylarah]