War shrugged. "Suit yourself. Can't say it ever stopped me. Puts a bit more of a spark in the blood," she said, taking another sip of her whiskey.

"As for what I'm doing here - well, things turned out that I needed a place to stay, and turned out there were a few folks round here I knew from way back, so seemed a good place to stop. Besides, it's quiet" - sometimes, she added silently to herself - "and it's nice to be able to have a place where you're not taking work home with you. Fine upstanding man like you, I'm sure you understand that," she said, quirking one eyebrow.