[He makes a small sound as he thinks, wrapping an arm around her and smiling.]
I miss The Chargers. Can't say much about the dogs, but The Chargers.
[He sighs a little.]
See, we...The Chief kind of collects people. The Chargers are that. We're a good task force, but...we're an ever better family. We're the people no one wanted, so The Chief took us in, gave us a family, a purpose.
[His voice is warm, fond.]
He looks big and bad, but he's really a big mother hen.
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.
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I miss The Chargers. Can't say much about the dogs, but The Chargers.
[He sighs a little.]
See, we...The Chief kind of collects people. The Chargers are that. We're a good task force, but...we're an ever better family. We're the people no one wanted, so The Chief took us in, gave us a family, a purpose.
[His voice is warm, fond.]
He looks big and bad, but he's really a big mother hen.
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[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.