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Galadan has little love for putting himself in the hands of others. He likes putting the lives of those he has a responsibility toward in those same hands only slightly better.
This, of course, is one reason he is not entirely fond of the security arrangements for the Tams' upcoming charity event. The other reasons--those are more personal, and thus largely irrelevant. Not entirely, though. Never entirely.
But there is no prickle of gooseflesh on his arms, no hairs raised on the back of his neck, no foreboding of doom that sets him to learning as much as he can about those who have been invited to this affair. What guides Galadan here and now is merely pragmatism, long learned and deeply ingrained.
It is that same pragmatism that sends him searching for the government's files on River and Simon Tam.
And that pragmatism, too, results in the slightest curve of his lips upon watching the events on Beaumonde, in a pub called the Maidenhead. This, now--
This is something he can use.
This, of course, is one reason he is not entirely fond of the security arrangements for the Tams' upcoming charity event. The other reasons--those are more personal, and thus largely irrelevant. Not entirely, though. Never entirely.
But there is no prickle of gooseflesh on his arms, no hairs raised on the back of his neck, no foreboding of doom that sets him to learning as much as he can about those who have been invited to this affair. What guides Galadan here and now is merely pragmatism, long learned and deeply ingrained.
It is that same pragmatism that sends him searching for the government's files on River and Simon Tam.
And that pragmatism, too, results in the slightest curve of his lips upon watching the events on Beaumonde, in a pub called the Maidenhead. This, now--
This is something he can use.