Don't think it would be so easy. I've seen the standards in training.
[Few of them come close enough to be a challenge, let alone a threat. The department would suffer without him, and - he's heard - the Captain is his superior in the field. He's not certain how he feels about that.
Willing to be impressed.]
Perhaps we shouldn't turn so easily on each other.
[There's a dryness to that tone - it's not literal, that would be unthinkable, but something in him wants his answer. How would you make me. The same thing that issues the challenge of letting his mouth narrow back to a line.]
no subject
[Few of them come close enough to be a challenge, let alone a threat. The department would suffer without him, and - he's heard - the Captain is his superior in the field. He's not certain how he feels about that.
Willing to be impressed.]
Perhaps we shouldn't turn so easily on each other.
[There's a dryness to that tone - it's not literal, that would be unthinkable, but something in him wants his answer. How would you make me. The same thing that issues the challenge of letting his mouth narrow back to a line.]