Deep breath, Reno. Deep breath. Reel that temper back a little.

"Rules," he said, loathing himself a little more for every syllable he kept saying, "aren't there for all the times you don't end up needing 'em. They're there for the exception, that one in a friggin' hundred where you do."

Tseng would be so proud that it finally sank in, at least. He leveled Karina with a look that said, in no uncertain terms, that he was angry. It wasn't a look he used often.

It was actually a kind of terrifying look, at that.

"So you're not gonna argue with me about how it all worked out. You're goin' on the detention list. There's no godsdamn point suspending you, since this class coming up is the last one. But if I'd found out about you going ahead of the group any earlier than now, we wouldn't even be havin' this discussion."

There wasn't even a 'yo' in there. Reno was maaaaad.