They're both a little on their guard, it's plain enough to see. But considering that this stranger seems to be taking a protective stance toward the child, Bakura forces himself to relax. What threat is he to his young self anyway?

"It already did; that could never be changed." Will this man be able to connect the dirty child with the grown man in front of him? The thief knows not. The child, for his part, shivers between the two men, prompting the thief to shed his outer robe and drop it around the small shoulders.

Another scream leads him to glance at the scene below even though it's not like he doesn't know what's happening, not like he hasn't replayed this night in his memories for centuries. But still he looks, and what he sees pains him.

"There are kings who did not care, yet someone of no consequence does."