Maybe they could at least be friendly. Anything more, the Soldier would have to work up to. But maybe it wouldn't be so bad. He could allow himself to have this without negative consequences.

Maybe. It remained to be seen.

"Not when you know what you'd risk by not being contained." The city had been fairly harmless, for the most part. But that didn't mean, should it happen again, that they would be so lucky.

"It does," he agreed, turning his attention back to his companion. "It is made worse by our captors. I don't trust them."