If you could, it would be appreciated. Check with the other two, if it'd help.
[Of course it doesn't help, though. Rey falls quiet a moment herself. Both out of exhaustion and how hard this is. She rubs her eyes, thinking while trying not to, but she can't help it.]
We... didn't make this decision lightly, but she gave us no choice. She thinks she's doing the right thing, but her actions would risk the safety of others and herself if she maintained any position of authority. If she tries to convince you otherwise, please remember that the reason we had to do this is because her intentions means going against everything the Guard is supposed to do.
[And it's bad enough that people have accused them of corruption without merit. She will not give them an excuse to believe that's true.]
[Rome is quiet at that. Questioning authority isn't something that comes naturally to them- his commander says jump and Rome does, his commander points him at the nearest target and Rome eliminates it. The concept of authority being abused is difficult for him to parse, simply because all the authority figures in his world never gave him reason to think that such a thing was even possible.
Humans, after all, have a higher sense of logic and morality than wolves. They know better.
Now that they're all questioning each other, it gets more complicated. If Maketh is right because she's his commander and Henry is right because he's his commander- then which is wrong? Clearly, he reasons, it should rest with the majority vote and the majority elected to remove her from her position.
It makes sense when he thinks about it like that.]
What were her actions? [He finally asks, calm as ever.]
[In that respect, Rey can understand where Rome is coming from. Good soldiers do as they're told, no questions asked. And Rey was born to die. Born to be a tool, to be used.
[However, she always had a defiant streak. It had been simmering inside of her since the day she was also created. It made going against Maketh's orders possible. But Rome seems to be different. She has to make sure he knows why this is happening.]
She has been working with a man from her world, named Hux, on a weapon to kill the gods. Since then, she's adopted his views that the ends justify the means, even if that means innocent people must die. People that she's supposed to protect. People who she seems to think have lesser value in life than those of the Guard.
[It still makes her sick to her stomach, having heard those words. That Hux "knows better" than to kill any of the Guard for the Null. She swallows hard, and continues.]
Her short-sighted drive to kill the gods will, in the end, only serve the Null. She might tell you that this is necessary, but that's not what the Guard does. We are not the Empire of her world. That's not how we run things here.
[Rey stops, her tone becoming harsher:] And, if you see that man, Hux, dispatch him. Don't kill him. Will deal with him so he will never have another chance to use her again. Whether she realizes it or not, he will be the death of her.
Incapacitate Hux, but leave him alive, [he summarizes.] Monitor Maketh for evidence of further collaborative action with the Null. Miss Maketh is removed from my chain of command and I now report to Commander Percy only.
[It's simple enough to repeat the facts back to her- a bit different to believe them fully or enact them. Rome functions as a joint rank with his handler: when they're suspended from active duty, he is as well. The line of command never changes unless a handler dies, and he's never experienced a sudden shift in power like this before.
He can manage, he thinks. If Maketh is relieved of her position and it's confirmed by the other leading member of the guard, then that makes him answer to... someone else. Henry, though the two of them rarely interact.
The whole situation is shaky but he understands the basic orders of it, which he relays well.
In retrospect, it's probably for the best that Hux has left the city before he could be found by the likes of Romulus. For all of his calm and concise accepting orders, he is absolutely brutal and ruthless when it comes to following them. Rey may have woken up one morning to a limbless former general in tourniquets in the clinic if he'd found him first. So... for the best, really.]
[It's probably best on all their parts that Hux is now absent from the city. Where Rome would leave him dismembered, Rey would render him a lobotomized husk. Combine their methods, and they'd have a job well done.
[There is no joy in Rey's tone when she speaks, though. She's exhausted. Knocked out Maketh using her own skull. At a loss of what else to do, she can only think to take away Maketh's authority and resources that have influenced her.
[This is all she can do right now.]
Correct.
Contact me if she tells you the location of the weapon she was working on with Hux, or she leads you to it. She can't be trusted with that thing.
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[voice]
[He's conflicted, but he understands the gravity of the situation. Rome only pauses for a moment, before he asks-]
You need me to monitor her movements?
[voice]
[Of course it doesn't help, though. Rey falls quiet a moment herself. Both out of exhaustion and how hard this is. She rubs her eyes, thinking while trying not to, but she can't help it.]
We... didn't make this decision lightly, but she gave us no choice. She thinks she's doing the right thing, but her actions would risk the safety of others and herself if she maintained any position of authority. If she tries to convince you otherwise, please remember that the reason we had to do this is because her intentions means going against everything the Guard is supposed to do.
[And it's bad enough that people have accused them of corruption without merit. She will not give them an excuse to believe that's true.]
[voice]
Humans, after all, have a higher sense of logic and morality than wolves. They know better.
Now that they're all questioning each other, it gets more complicated. If Maketh is right because she's his commander and Henry is right because he's his commander- then which is wrong? Clearly, he reasons, it should rest with the majority vote and the majority elected to remove her from her position.
It makes sense when he thinks about it like that.]
What were her actions? [He finally asks, calm as ever.]
[voice]
[However, she always had a defiant streak. It had been simmering inside of her since the day she was also created. It made going against Maketh's orders possible. But Rome seems to be different. She has to make sure he knows why this is happening.]
She has been working with a man from her world, named Hux, on a weapon to kill the gods. Since then, she's adopted his views that the ends justify the means, even if that means innocent people must die. People that she's supposed to protect. People who she seems to think have lesser value in life than those of the Guard.
[It still makes her sick to her stomach, having heard those words. That Hux "knows better" than to kill any of the Guard for the Null. She swallows hard, and continues.]
Her short-sighted drive to kill the gods will, in the end, only serve the Null. She might tell you that this is necessary, but that's not what the Guard does. We are not the Empire of her world. That's not how we run things here.
[Rey stops, her tone becoming harsher:] And, if you see that man, Hux, dispatch him. Don't kill him. Will deal with him so he will never have another chance to use her again. Whether she realizes it or not, he will be the death of her.
Can you do that?
[voice]
[It's simple enough to repeat the facts back to her- a bit different to believe them fully or enact them. Rome functions as a joint rank with his handler: when they're suspended from active duty, he is as well. The line of command never changes unless a handler dies, and he's never experienced a sudden shift in power like this before.
He can manage, he thinks. If Maketh is relieved of her position and it's confirmed by the other leading member of the guard, then that makes him answer to... someone else. Henry, though the two of them rarely interact.
The whole situation is shaky but he understands the basic orders of it, which he relays well.
In retrospect, it's probably for the best that Hux has left the city before he could be found by the likes of Romulus. For all of his calm and concise accepting orders, he is absolutely brutal and ruthless when it comes to following them. Rey may have woken up one morning to a limbless former general in tourniquets in the clinic if he'd found him first. So... for the best, really.]
I can do that.
[voice]
[There is no joy in Rey's tone when she speaks, though. She's exhausted. Knocked out Maketh using her own skull. At a loss of what else to do, she can only think to take away Maketh's authority and resources that have influenced her.
[This is all she can do right now.]
Correct.
Contact me if she tells you the location of the weapon she was working on with Hux, or she leads you to it. She can't be trusted with that thing.
And... thanks. Am trusting you with this.
[This is a shit deal all around.]
[voice]
[And... all that other stuff too. It's a lot to ask, but he's up for the task- at least, he hopes he is.]