You were probably expecting your brother, so sorry about that, first of all.

[ Childe thinks back to the path he'd taken to get here. He thinks of the double doors, the men standing on either side of them, where they might have been able to hide any potential weapons or the like.

It would be easy to kill Rex Lapis and then make his escape. Easy, he thinks, and yet... ]

I suppose there's no beating around the bush. I'm here to assassinate you, per the orders of Her Majesty the Tsaritsa.