[Nero has always found it gratifying to provoke a strong reaction in someone, and in this case, it is doubly so. How reassuring it is, to know that someone else finds that man as alarming as he does! He smiles tightly.]

Aah, so he ought to be dead twice over? I'm not at all amused that he's strolling around looking like a certain member of the Garlean royal family... [He need not clarify which one, surely. If Thancred's familiar enough with him to know that he should be dead, then he must know the face that he's been wearing. Though it's all enough to drive a man to drink, and so he drinks a bit more...]

How does one go about killing an Ascian, precisely? I presume the Warrior of Light is involved somewhere in the process?