Rai listened in a strange, uneasy silence. To hear Julian's name spoken with such cold familiarity by a total stranger would have been nothing, but hearing it come from Zade's mouth made a twisted kind of sense.
Rai couldn't help himself; he shifted himself and turned to face Zade fully, his expression a mix of quiet curiosity and reluctant satisfaction. Zade was actually going to hand over some real information for once.
"Why?" Rai asked, his voice steady.
"He's bad," Zade said, his posture relaxed, almost arrogant. "But... not as bad as me, alright?"
"Of course not. No one can be a bigger bastard than you are," Rai replied with a faint, dry scoff. "So tell me. You do know him, right? Don't you?"
