"Don't worry, I'm not scared," Nicaise said. He certainly wouldn't be calling Laurent and telling him about this. After the incident with Lincoln he'd been shadowed for a month, he had to take self-defense lessons and learn the first aid he mentioned earlier. Things like this Nicaise would keep to himself as much as possible.

"Do you mean stitches?" he asked, tilting his head for a closer look at the wound. "I wasn't taught that."