[ He sat up straight once more and pulled an envelope from the inside of his jacket. He slides it across to Archie. ] You are of course free to have another lawyer look it over, but if you sign these papers you will make it easier for me to make claims against the videos and to work with the various streaming sites to automatically delete the footage should someone upload it. I have made it so that it is specific to just the footage of this event, and nothing else.

I can do it without your help, but it will take far, far longer, as without the aid of Nikolai's legal guardian I will have to specify my tactics to each site it is on.

[ There was silence for a moment, and then a sigh. ]

As for how he got too close, he got cocky. He apparently did not do any research on the creature and had gotten lucky enough in the last fight to avoid any serious harm. I had falsely assumed that he knew what he was doing and did not realise just how much danger he was in until it was too late to inform him otherwise. [ There is, oddly enough, some shame in his voice. ]