There's another slightly lopsided shrug, hunch settling in a little closer. He doesn't bother looking up.

Don't care.

The users don't. He doesn't. His reasons matter as little to them as their trial system does to him. The punishment that matters isn't going to be affected by any vote. He knows what's coming. What was going to happen the moment he harmed another of their kind.

The ticking rattle rises audibly, but Rinzler doesn't bother to add more.