"Easy...unless there is some trick." Suspicious? Possibly. Gadriel has not had an easy time here. It would a real treat if, just once, all they had to do was murder some xenos. It might make him downright homesick.

There's something like a quirk of a smile--his face kind of isn't made for it, with all the scars. "You sound like my sister Nina." Who gets through life by punching all her problems, even when one of her problems is Gadriel.

It is a ridiculously sturdy and well-made knife. Whatever one might say about the Imperium, they gave their Angels the best weapons they could manufacture. "Gadriel." He had a first name, of course. No one knew it yet. There just wasn't a point. It was only ever announced at ceremonies and rites anyway.