[ With this unpredictable turn of events he's gotten not one, but now two, foolhardy participants in his game. Incredible.
Obviously all he has to do is watch. What he observes is that Mizuki does it with a enthusiastic abandon that tells Nikolai that he'll be just fine. It would take intentional disturbing of his concentration to get him to stab into his fingers, Gogol thinks. So he turns his eye back on his first volunteer. The one who is doing it for the chance to win a prize... and that's likely to be the more nervous of the two.
He carries along the tune of the little jingle with a whistle like a canary singing its heart out in a mine-shaft on the eve of disaster. Abruptly, he stops and leans in with anticipation. ]
Careful now.
[ He utters quietly. So quiet, in fact, that it's uncharacteristic. Someone would have to suddenly divert some of their attention away from the knives and the song and the danger to make an exerted effort to realize what he's said. ]
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Obviously all he has to do is watch. What he observes is that Mizuki does it with a enthusiastic abandon that tells Nikolai that he'll be just fine. It would take intentional disturbing of his concentration to get him to stab into his fingers, Gogol thinks. So he turns his eye back on his first volunteer. The one who is doing it for the chance to win a prize... and that's likely to be the more nervous of the two.
He carries along the tune of the little jingle with a whistle like a canary singing its heart out in a mine-shaft on the eve of disaster. Abruptly, he stops and leans in with anticipation. ]
Careful now.
[ He utters quietly. So quiet, in fact, that it's uncharacteristic. Someone would have to suddenly divert some of their attention away from the knives and the song and the danger to make an exerted effort to realize what he's said. ]