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Nivram
Contrary to Isokla, Nivram was in a quite gullible state and believed at first what Zakaria was saying. To him, the first half of the story was at least believable. But as the story went on with Keal's interjections even Nivram started having his doubts. He could not be quite sure of how true the story Zakaria was telling was. Only Zakaria could know whether what he was saying was true or not.
All while Zakaria had been speaking Nivram watched the man, studying his face, the emotions playing on it. Zakaria did not know how much more his facial expressions betrayed than what he said did. To Nivram, who had trained himself in learning human emotions and psychological states, Zakaria was becoming something like an open book.
He seemed to be easily led by others with greater willpower or people, who had charisma and could easily convince others. Him serving the assassin master and his cousin, who had readily admitted to sending out bandits, seemed to strengthen this belief in Nivram. Killing these people as soon as he learnt of their treachery, was proof to Zakaria not likeing being manipulated.
As far as he did not know that he was manipulated, it seemed that the man did not care about serving others. This was what Nivram guessed from his story, and in the time it took him to reach this conclusion, Keal had finished speaking.
Nivram replied, because it was expected of him to reply. He had been the one, who had requested Zakaria to recount his tale.
"It is a sad tale, with blood and dead bodies aplenty." - Nivram paused, thinking of what to say. "It must have been hard for you to bring up these memories of your past, Zakaria, therefore I thank you for sharing your story."
Nivram felt a slight bit more comfortable next to Zakaria now, knowing what the man was capable of.
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