That sounds great. Just collecting people who need to do something with their life, who need something to live for.

[She curls up to him, though her expression is somewhat distant.]

That's what the Wardens gave to me. I mean, I'd like to say it was why I joined, but I joined because it was that or get executed, so yeah, pass me the damn chalice.

And it's what I tried to make the Wardens into. I recruited people who needed the Wardens as much as we needed them.

[That's what she'd told Nathaniel when she conscripted him. She'd told him that the Wardens would give him what he needed. And that'd turned out pretty good.]

Maybe it stuck. I don't know. Didn't really expect an order I tried to form into something like a family to kill each other to fuel blood magic for a demon army, but you know. What family reunion doesn't have a little blood magic.

[The words are spit out far too casually, pressing a face devoid of emotion into his side. After a pause, she shrugged.]

But I don't think you invited me here to listen to me whining.