"Good that you don't have to dirty your hands with that, then."

"I am a sorcerer myself, Mr. Latz."

"I bet you still outsource some of your magic... No, I think I'm done talking to you, you're a brick wall. Can I go or have I rendered myself disposable for the greater good?"

"You can go. I hope you will consider my offer."

"...You should feel lucky I didn't attack you again," Oscar says. He gets up to leave, noticeably shaking with anger.

Sano lets him go.

...And on the way to make an appointment with Sano, Sal and Inaaya see Oscar storming away from an obviously bloody Sano. 

"What the fuck," Sal whispers.

"Excellent question."

"Um-- Mr. Latz-- what, um--"

(He's shivering a little, dressed for a cold November day but not the sudden light snow they've been walking in for half a mile.)

Oscar notices Sal and Inaaya. "I need to talk to you," he says firmly.

"I-- okay?"

"Before you go in there with him."

is the entire world playing a game of 'how many different kinds of terrible can happen in one day," is that what's happening

"Okay. What happened?"

"He-- he's like Chris Parker," Oscar says.

...Sano is going to stay here actually and make sure Inaaya is okay.

"...He doesn't look like Chris Parker! He looks like you just beat him bloody!"

Calm and patient calm and patient if there is exactly one calm person here and it's her then it'll have to be her. "Okay," she says, "but that doesn't tell me what happened."

"I didn't beat him bloody," Oscar says. Though not in a particularly reassuring tone.

"That's good!"

Says you.

Look she's just broadly a fan of people not beating each other bloody.

"So what did happen, then."

"...You can ask him about the blood, I don't care if you believe me." Oscar's tone makes it clear he does in fact very much care. "...Sano makes people read Der Wanderer. And the King in Yellow. 'Disposable' people."

That... seems extremely unlikely given everything she knows of Sano, he really doesn't seem like he wants anyone to read the King in Yellow at all.... "O...kay," she says instead of that. "But what happened."