"He has rank. That should be enough." And Gadriel had tried to make it enough, had accepted, though it chafed, Acheran simply handing his squad over to him. Had tried to give Titus that humbled respect, asking him about his time in the Death Watch.

Gadriel sighed. "He had served penance, before coming to us, suffering under the Inquisition, and then as a Black Shield." Remember all that stuff about Gadriel demanding penance? THAT was what he was talking about. "But we are to be brothers. He should have trusted us more than he did."