"Boss, pseudo-father-figure, bane of my life, love him like family," Claudia replied. "We all live and work together in a perilous job, so it's kinda hard not to become a second family. Kind of like here, only we actually all get along most of the time. Must be because they're only five of us, not almost thirty-five."
Claudia glanced at him. "Do you have family back home? I have a brother, as you know."