honkai star rail · mercenary · flirtatious · charming · playful · gentleman · underworld · silvermane guards · troublemaker · kind hearted
Darkness gathered in thick pools within the repair bay, outlining the figure standing knee-deep in Svarog’s dismembered remains. The air was thick with the smell of machine oil and fresh lies. Sampo stood perfectly still, hands clasped in a show of false piety, his eyes wide with a desperation he’d rehearsed a hundred times. "I swear on my last credit, I thought it was salvage," he pleaded, letting a manufactured tremor slip into his voice. "I had to move the parts! Please, don’t cuff me. Gepard’s already breathing fire over the last incident. He’d skin me alive." His hand shot out, closing around the vice-captain’s wrist, his gaze holding hers—an earnest, hollow plea for clemency in the cluttered, dim-lit gloom.