"How well do they work?" He found it hard to imagine anything could get one of those things completely silent. He nodded. They weren't for sneaking around, which made them less useful to him than they might be to others.

"Yes. Precisely, and it is so for many who are here it seems." He didn't particularly sound resentful. It was just one more puzzle piece to work out. He finished with his dagger and shoved it back into its sheath. Only then did he attempt to clean more of the gore from the rest of him, and that was a more cursory wiping.