[Javert tucks his perturbed pang beneath a veneer of forced lightness. It is all the more difficult to hold, when his eyes wander up from her extended hand and glimpse the black opals encircling her arm. A shadow flits across his face, and he tears his gaze away from her arm and back to Peace's face.
He draws his hand away and allows it to drop into his lap. He straightens into a precarious perch against the edge of the desk.]
I am entitled to offer protections to people under my watch. You're entitled to demand them as my employee when you go out on the field. A duty which I've failed to uphold a number of times too many. [This might come out as a bit of a jest, his brow slanted coyly:] Do you want a security detail, too? A few fine men to keep you out of nasty traps?
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[Javert tucks his perturbed pang beneath a veneer of forced lightness. It is all the more difficult to hold, when his eyes wander up from her extended hand and glimpse the black opals encircling her arm. A shadow flits across his face, and he tears his gaze away from her arm and back to Peace's face.
He draws his hand away and allows it to drop into his lap. He straightens into a precarious perch against the edge of the desk.]
I am entitled to offer protections to people under my watch. You're entitled to demand them as my employee when you go out on the field. A duty which I've failed to uphold a number of times too many. [This might come out as a bit of a jest, his brow slanted coyly:] Do you want a security detail, too? A few fine men to keep you out of nasty traps?