[The nug goes unnoticed, or noticed and uncared about; it's all the same.

Stepping forward into the room, straight-backed and solemn, Gideon's presence is large despite his smallness of stature. He keeps going, until Richard is forced to either step back or share the air with him, radiating a strange intensity just beneath his outward calm.

He's here for one reason. The question is whether Richard is ready to pay the piper he summoned.