This is too much. Charlie's mouth is twisting despite him. He can't even focus on the implications of Faust when this is-
He wants to sock Arthur in the jaw. He wants to break his nose, properly this time. He doesn't feel even vaguely bad, any more, about the crack to his throat or his jewels or his face. A pit fighter. He reminded Charlie of a pit fighter because he was one.
He tries to remember how it was to begin with, when he wasn't familiar with the King's game. Sheer luck played as much of a part as stubbornness, sometimes. It's hard to remember, and even harder to extend that grace in this moment, and it swirls with the rest of his thoughts.
He's finding out, in one blow, both that Sarah survived and that the King has killed her. She was already gone by the time he got back to Arkham, and he didn't know if she'd vanished along with Roland, or been murdered along with Delphine, and everything else came on before he could find out. But if Arthur's journey has been that short, then it means she was still alive after Charlie escaped the Dreamlands. A horrible possibility presents itself, that the King replaced one prisoner with another.
"And you're sure she was killed? No possibility he took her into the Dreamlands?"
Of course he could do both, but the King seemed to need someone there in a physical sense to interrogate them, for reasons Charlie can't guess.
Re: what lies beneath
He wants to sock Arthur in the jaw. He wants to break his nose, properly this time. He doesn't feel even vaguely bad, any more, about the crack to his throat or his jewels or his face. A pit fighter. He reminded Charlie of a pit fighter because he was one.
He tries to remember how it was to begin with, when he wasn't familiar with the King's game. Sheer luck played as much of a part as stubbornness, sometimes. It's hard to remember, and even harder to extend that grace in this moment, and it swirls with the rest of his thoughts.
He's finding out, in one blow, both that Sarah survived and that the King has killed her. She was already gone by the time he got back to Arkham, and he didn't know if she'd vanished along with Roland, or been murdered along with Delphine, and everything else came on before he could find out. But if Arthur's journey has been that short, then it means she was still alive after Charlie escaped the Dreamlands. A horrible possibility presents itself, that the King replaced one prisoner with another.
"And you're sure she was killed? No possibility he took her into the Dreamlands?"
Of course he could do both, but the King seemed to need someone there in a physical sense to interrogate them, for reasons Charlie can't guess.