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Roan

I'm not stupid; they all think I'm crazy

The kids below lass room above the rest of Navesink Bank

Maybe if you subtracted fifteen years, and added on a whole lot of youthful bravado, I would think the sa the horizon for a storm that no one has even predicted

But, I figure, those white-headed men out in the , s, and took off to their underground shelters were always the ones toeveryone who had called him an old fool by surprise

Better prepared than dead

That seeood motto for life, one I learned early, one I had needed to live by for a long, long time

Did itup with The Henchain, yes Did I sometimes need to question my own sanity? Yep

But I learned half a lifeti And it had been in a fale

So I sat

I waited

I endured the boredom, the uncertainty, the noise of my own mind that had a tendency to wander when hours became months that became years

Belowone, a world in flux, while mine stayed mostly still

It was nothing new, though, I guessed

The movies and shoaysBut the reality is a whole lot of waiting around for so, for days, weeks,that finally spurred you into action, finally let you close the case, secure an asset, get a major win in the name of your country

And while that life was ripped away fro for any crianization (which, aside from private security - was pretty much all an ex-spook was qualified to do) involved a lot of the sa an eye out for an eneence

From what I knew - thanks to sorong - Reign, and the organization in general, didn't have any current enemies

I was quick to remind him

That he knew of