[ Astarion might as well turn bright red in fury. The stairs are still impossibly difficult for him with this leg, but he laboriously takes a few steps up regardless, just enough so that he can tug on Iorveth's sleeve and urge him to step away from Damris. He wouldn't really be so stupid, Astarion hopes, as to try to hurt Iorveth in front of everyone, but it still makes his heart clench in anxiety regardless. ]

You won't become anything but a corpse if you speak to him like that again.

[ Maybe they should have just killed him in the first place. He's so fucking complicated, with his hopes and dreams. ]

I don't know what sort of nonsense Gale filled your head with, but we can't have a rabid vampire roaming the streets of Waterdeep.

[ Entirely hypocritical. Astarion's the only one here who's actually drained the blood of a Waterdhavian citizen. ]

You could eat Tara! And that would be horrible. [ Or would it... ]