[...was that the wrong thing to say? Or was it that the right thing was hard to hear? Dakki really couldn't tell. She eased out of her own stance, and took a few steps closer.]

Where I come from, I'm a Guardian. We're fighters for hire, mercenaries, but we often work with the military and with planetary law enforcement. Maybe... if we were from the same world, maybe we'd be on opposite sides... or maybe the same one. I don't know where you've walked. I might have walked the same steps.

[She pauses and lowers her own head, considering her words. No, now wasn't the time to talk about Illuminus. It was never the time to talk about them.]

...but this is Mayfield. And sides don't always matter so much.