A New Family

[Alex]

Alex laughed. Ivan was a good man, and funny. And he surely would not get along with Sebastian their line of work was not the same very opposite of one another. But it was the fact that he assumed he was a friend. Alex could only smile at that, she would not call Sebastian a friend, he was many things but he was not a friend. "Who said anything about him being my friend?"
She grinned at him playfully. "I have no doubt that you are liked by most people you encounter, except maybe those with whom you encounter on your day to day job."
It was the only hint she was about to give him.

"His friends that I've met only briefly surprise me that he would associate with them. Not exactly his type either. But I suppose your power brings you closer together. One seemed very competent, the other well, he didn't look like he fit in with either of them."


She looked back at Ivan "I suppose you've not met too many folks like you?"
Alex confided, "I sometimes wish I had that same dilemma."
Alex's mind wandered a little to Aria and her past, without thinking she spoke her mind. "Though I'd hate to have grown up like my half sister, and her cult like upbringing - a girl with a sword, who'd even beleive that."