If turning around and hitting Reno for real wouldn't hurt as much, not to mention piss off Tseng, Rude probably would have. As it was, Tseng and Elena were taking care of explaining the business with the epitaphs to him, so Rude just spoke coldly. "I could snap your neck without breaking a sweat. I wouldn't waste time making my partner look like shark bait."
Most people would have said something like 'hamburger', and Rude normally would have. But first the attack by the epitaphs, watching as something that looked like Reno and something that looked like Tseng had tried to kill both him and Elena, and then killing them first, only to be attacked by the real Reno like this was fracturing Rude's almost impenetrable armor. 'Shark bait' was just a throw-back to his Costa del Sol origins; not a large one, and one most people wouldn't recognize, but he'd tried to leave that behind when he became a Turk, on Tseng's orders.
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Date: 2010-01-17 04:35 am (UTC)Most people would have said something like 'hamburger', and Rude normally would have. But first the attack by the epitaphs, watching as something that looked like Reno and something that looked like Tseng had tried to kill both him and Elena, and then killing them first, only to be attacked by the real Reno like this was fracturing Rude's almost impenetrable armor. 'Shark bait' was just a throw-back to his Costa del Sol origins; not a large one, and one most people wouldn't recognize, but he'd tried to leave that behind when he became a Turk, on Tseng's orders.