Take your time, Surreal. Daemon wouldn't hit you while you were down. He wasn't always channelling the Sadist, after all.

"She decided it would be more important to be certain that I played nice with my brother. Lucivar and I have a bit of a history of misbehaving, when in one another's company."

Scuffles and scraps that ended in bloodshed more often for the people around them than themselves, but that was hardly the point. Or maybe that absolutely was the point.