"Okay. Okay. Okay...Okay... To set the record straight, I was just minding my own business, out having a nice, midnight stroll, all right? That's all. If anyone asks, that is what I was doing." Mr. Bom said, the guilt on his face apparent. Suddenly it was starting to make sense. The weapon shop! He'd asked her to use her teleport to let him see inside. He had been casing the place.
"No wait! In fact, come to think of it, don't mention the stroll at all! Just say I was here the whole time." he continued without pause. The tip of Claire's sword touched the ground as the realization set in. She was moving away from the window before he had even finished; her sword lightly scraping across the floor.
"It'll only complicate things with needless questions, yes?" he said, trying to look casual but failing spectacularly. She finished her movement as he finished his words; now she was but a few feet from him. She had to be sure; she had to ask. "Mr. Bom... did your "not-a-midnight-stroll" happen to take you to the weapon shop you visited earlier?" she asked, her voice calm and collected but sickly sweet, an over-large smile on her face, but eyes cold and unblinking as though a bird hunting prey; the kind of expression that belayed the seething rage hidden behind it but not well enough to make it at all unnoticeable.
The sword still in her hand only reinforced and punctuated the danger Mr. Bom was in. At this point, Claire wondered if she would allow the Daya or the Ghouls the privilege of gutting Mr. Bom like a fish; it wasn't a privilege she really felt like sharing at the moment. Through it all, Claire could only think "Is it too much to ask for us to visit a town and leave without a mob on our tale or causing an incident. Is it really TOO much to ask; just once?"