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“Your heart’s in the right place you know. Loyalty and fighting spirit count for a lot. Loyalty to this community. You’re not a law breaker. You’d fit in better than some of the marines they already have!”
MaxChaos realises that Walker is being serious. They look at each other silently. Then at HayWire, who’s feeling uncomfortable, and he just shrugs. Then Walker adds, “it’s all about safety you know, self defence, Wolfies are not the aggressors, we just need to be sure that honest, law abiding people like us are protected from others that might do us harm.”
Walker finishes her coffee and puts three pennies down on the table.
“The Garrison and the Constabulary are all one and the same really. Two different divisions of the same government department. I can put in a good word for you if you ever change your mind. Gotta dash, I heard Hayley Wilde was a bit overcome with grief this afternoon, I need to drop by the Coliseum anyway. Several reasons!”
Once Walker has left the café, MaxChaos turns to HayWire and asks, “if we’re never going to attack anybody, we don’t actually need a Garrison do we?”
HayWire’s brain is already a bit frazzled following Walker’s extraordinarily direct and pointed conversation. HayWire had wanted to chat all about ideas for innovating new armaments, not about employment opportunities! And his new innovative ideas mean that he wants to get hold of something explosive. For the best of reasons of course. Nothing sinister! But being HayWire he knows that he can’t just go around asking random people for stuff that goes bang!
Impatiently, MaxChaos repeats the question, “we don’t actually need a Garrison do we?”
HayWire hesitates, snaps out of his day dream, and then responds, “yes and no, it’s not as simple as that. And I don’t have enough spoons right now.”
He stands up to leave, “don’t worry, I’ll explain later.”
Confused, MaxChaos glances at the teaspoons on the table and watches HayWire depart. He thinks, “spoons?”
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