Taas frowns, glancing at her scar again. "That's... fuck." He shakes his head, hand tightening a bit around the mug of ale until the wood creaks in protest. "Experiment on? What were they trying to figure out?" Lyrium, too. That was some serious shit right there.

"Is she okay? And Ruby?" He had liked playing with that one in the snow games, after all. She had a good head on her shoulders and was damn pretty, too. The ring she gave him as a prize after that game was still there on his little finger (which was the only finger it had fit on), so knowing that he had not been here when shit like that happened... it left him wanting to punch something.

Again, he wishes he wasn't gone for so long.