"Oh, thank you so much," he said, with the tightness one would expect of someone that had been crying. "I'm glad not everyone here is heartless..." Juuuust a little closer. He let Beck help him up as far as one knee before the knife came out.

He went for a slice to the throat, but the angle was off. The knife sliced across one of Beck's collarbones and up along one side of his neck. It was deep enough to cause a lot of bleeding, but it was not immediately life threatening.