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"Yeah, I'll manage. I just need to get my energy back up. I've been doing alright this long..." Although this was probably part of the reason for the tightened security. More patrols would mean more fighting to get in and more fighting to get out. Changes of strategy all around. "And the long and short is pretty much go as fast as possible and engage in a lot of punching." He joked, but... not really. It was going to be a fight, there would be damage, and yeah it wasn't going to be fun, but this really wasn't -supposed- to be fun, and there was no way he'd get a Permit. Not a legal one, and getting an illegal one would be a nightmare, and put more people in danger... Ugh. Goddamn negaverse.

"...So yeah I guess the only thing that's really changed is the uniform. I still have various flavors of exactly the same approach to problem solving."

"Zee I wouldn't argue if you told me to sleep on the basement floor." Xanthus sighed. The couch frankly, sounded like heaven. They managed at the camps, and it would be sleeping in the middle of enemy territory, but it also appealed to nostalgia as well as comfort. Real full on dinner, couch...

"If it comes down to trouble I can spin it like you're a hostage. Should keep you from getting into too much trouble... I think."

Reasonably it would make sense for her to be the hostage in such a situation in a pinch... but then... Reasonable was not necessarily the way the Negaverse worked.

"I can find you a mirror easy if need be."

He wanted to tell her that there was one... but revealing too much detail in city walls... even though they were in her home, you just...

He could tell her tomorrow. She wouldn't like the reasons, but she might appreciate the door.