"I'm still confused how you went from being in actual prison to being in charge of our unit." Kyriac was walking alongside Rolando. They had been assigned to go track down a loose magical, this one was not exactly on the Rim, but close enough to be Rimish. Rolando wasn't even shackled anymore, they had "taken him off the chain" as the Imperial guard said when they unlocked him from holding.
"I charmed them with all the nice things I've done for Empire."
"Bullshit, you saved the emperor and got locked up, I doubt almost getting blown up by Barker would suddenly change things." Rolando shrugged.
"Look I can't tell you why the Empire does these things, maybe they realized keeping me locked up just put the Empire in danger, the best place for me is working." It made sense to Rolando, not so much to Kyriac.
"So who are we after?" Kyriac didn't have much of a feeling with the young Lieutenant, he had proven himself obstinate, and he was a Lorentino which was another layer of danger, but his record was fairly clean and he'd taken down several magical people in the past. Which could play into him being a plant for his father, helping the elder Lorentino by removing problems, but despite several inquiries to the matter the Imperial Military had found no evidence of that. Kyriac remained unconvinced but Rolando outranked him and he did follow orders even if they were by people he didn't trust.
"A bad man Sergeant, a bad man." They loaded into the shuttle and Rolando sat in the back and closed his eyes. Kyriac sighed and called up the information on the target, a Simon Trents, and as Rolando had said, he was indeed a bad man.
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