[ It's probably a good thing he has no idea that Sylvain assumes he has the same amount of spine as a slug. He'd likely not find the comparison very flattering.

It's a little ironic that the moment those words leave Lorenz's lips, another hair-raising howl echoes up from down blow, long and loud and full of inhuman agony. Sylvain can't quite hide his flinch.

But he does give his companion a wide-eyed, disbelieving look. ]

That? I'd say that definitely qualifies as cause for concern. I don't think anything is supposed to make sounds like that. Not to mention that if it isn't a human, then what in Founders' name are they doing down there that is making... whatever that is, make a noise like that?

[ Maybe they're little biased in being surrounded by Gold Court vampires, to whom appearance and decorum is everything. But maybe that's also why he's so alarmed by this. Vampires always presented themselves as impervious to almost everything (shy of sunlight, as far as he knew) so if that was a vampire down there...

Actually maybe he didn't want to know what was happening down there after all. ]

...D'ya think we should tell someone?