"Considering I've been working for over an hour in a forge, I'll take that as a compliment." He was a flatter, but considering how serious she was about her work, it was still nice to know. "Though it's said around the platoon that I sometimes have a bigger set than half the names at the top, rest assured they're talking more figurative."
Given what she's faced and the stakes that she's known, she sees little point in playing cautious.
She held out her cup. "To surviving-though which of us is which or are we a little of both." She'd been called both of a sort, but she was still living: so she couldn't say she was a total fool.
Still, her mouth twitched a little at the Danny joke-it was over a decade ago, but the manner and time. "He was killed just eighteen years ago, my brother. Joined the police force as soon as he left school, first night on patrol-wrong place, wrong time."