[It's the prickling sort of answer which is not utterly unaware of the possibility that yes, a man with a single change of clothes and a general air of destitution about him might very well be concealing some bandaged wound beneath his clothes, but is under the distinct impression that such a descriptor is utterly inapplicable to his own person.]
One of the Mirrorbound was injured when he arrived. These clothes are from that night. —Ah, this will do. [Somewhere in there he has let himself halfway down that steep series of stairs and peers now into the gloom. He reaches up and raps on the exposed ceiling beams.] Excellent. It is so much easier to make the necessary installations when the supports are easily accessible. Yes, this will do very nicely indeed.
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[It's the prickling sort of answer which is not utterly unaware of the possibility that yes, a man with a single change of clothes and a general air of destitution about him might very well be concealing some bandaged wound beneath his clothes, but is under the distinct impression that such a descriptor is utterly inapplicable to his own person.]
One of the Mirrorbound was injured when he arrived. These clothes are from that night. —Ah, this will do. [Somewhere in there he has let himself halfway down that steep series of stairs and peers now into the gloom. He reaches up and raps on the exposed ceiling beams.] Excellent. It is so much easier to make the necessary installations when the supports are easily accessible. Yes, this will do very nicely indeed.