[ yeah, there's no telling that kids can be tough. they're easy to manipulate too, so grow them up right and you've got yourself a functional army. not that he'd... do anything like that, of course (not here and now), but he knows it's worth giving the younger ones a second glance if they can prove themselves.

he follows her gaze and then directs it back to her, his smile seemingly reinforced. video games? not quite, but close enough to what he'd been wanting to hear. ]

But it's fishy, right? I'm no technology expert, but you don't wander into a video game every day. And speaking of tech, it doesn't look like there's much of it.