"Some would say I am a child," Sasuke said, lips pulling together into a frown at her tone. But the insults didn't bother him as much as they would have coming from someone else--she knew what it was like, wasn't just trying to appease to his violent nature so she could lure him out back and exterminate the threat.

"It doesn't matter," he said again, but he dropped the sword from the NPC's neck and let it hang at his side. "They're characters in a story. They're not real. They don't matter, and like you said, I'm restless."