[ After the location, he hangs up, no further word.
He paces, in his room. Looks to the metals that Cassel left him. Ah, he shouldn't; he doesn't want Charles to know he has a source now, and he doesn't want any further accusations to come from his associations with Cassel. They'll think that Zane is just using him. That's exactly what Zane isn't doing. He told Cassel as much, baldly.
Charles will have the copper and tin for him, Zane reminds himself. In the meantime, he picks up one pellet of steel - he's already burned one of the beads of pewter, and it's cleared his body of the symptoms of illness, for now - and swallows it. One of pewter, too, to leave in his stomach. He doesn't burn either of them for now.
And he shows up, not long after the conversation, with a knock on the door. ]
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He paces, in his room. Looks to the metals that Cassel left him. Ah, he shouldn't; he doesn't want Charles to know he has a source now, and he doesn't want any further accusations to come from his associations with Cassel. They'll think that Zane is just using him. That's exactly what Zane isn't doing. He told Cassel as much, baldly.
Charles will have the copper and tin for him, Zane reminds himself. In the meantime, he picks up one pellet of steel - he's already burned one of the beads of pewter, and it's cleared his body of the symptoms of illness, for now - and swallows it. One of pewter, too, to leave in his stomach. He doesn't burn either of them for now.
And he shows up, not long after the conversation, with a knock on the door. ]