Reno gave the phone a wry sort of grin. Maybe his voice conveyed it better, though.
"They put me on leave, afterward. For my injuries. Few strong potions dealt with the worst of that. Once they weren't holdin' my guts inside me with their hands anymore, it was more a matter of..." Sigh. Oh, this was hard to talk about. "They blamed Sector Seven on a terrorist group that we were fightin'. Every friggin' news broadcast. The papers, the radio, the TV. AVALANCHE, AVALANCHE, AVALANCHE. I did a lotta throwin' empty bottles through television screens. You don't walk away from a mission like that. You never do."
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"They put me on leave, afterward. For my injuries. Few strong potions dealt with the worst of that. Once they weren't holdin' my guts inside me with their hands anymore, it was more a matter of..." Sigh. Oh, this was hard to talk about. "They blamed Sector Seven on a terrorist group that we were fightin'. Every friggin' news broadcast. The papers, the radio, the TV. AVALANCHE, AVALANCHE, AVALANCHE. I did a lotta throwin' empty bottles through television screens. You don't walk away from a mission like that. You never do."