[There's another hum from Henry's end as he thinks about that. Styx has a manner of speaking that, well... It's coming from a place of trying to express the core of his thoughts, he thought. He doesn't explain all of the things he considers when it comes to applying Henry's wartime skills toward anything else, but the sorcerer's met enough people to know that even his sinister curses intended for torture could also be used to mend porcelain.

Things like that. Little things. If it were video, there'd be a nod.]

Yeah, I guess if you can take a step back... For both things, I mean. That maybe my skills could be used for other stuff, or that Drummond might not be so threatening in Miss Nessie's care.

[There could be pacifist sorts among them. Henry can respect that, even if he doesn't get it very well. As long as there was somebody out there who could see from that view, he thinks it's worth it. But likewise...]

Hey, you're pretty good at talking about this stuff. It's easy to talk to you, even if we don't EXACTLY share the same point of view. Dunno why.