"Glad you seem amused by that thought," Caine said, tones flat and entirely deadpan. Maybe he actually meant it, or he was just being a dick.

"That would mean moving in close and opening myself to a plethora of methods of violence to stop or kill me. I think I'll stay here,' he said, trained as a soldier and now working as a guard. "What do you do around here? I'm still learning about the area," he admitted.