<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99">Ayla bit down on her lip a little as he mentioned her dealings with Illian. <i>Of course</i> he was an assassin. He couldn’t be an accountant, or a librarian, or anything else… granted he’d told her this before, but she hadn’t exactly been paying the best of attention. That was back when she’d been first brought here, and for all she had known, he could have simply been trying to impress her.  Of course now she knew better, but it was a little late for that.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi rested a reassuring hand on Ayla’s arm, nodding. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“Is there ever any crossover between the different branches? People who do both, or tasks that overlap that one branch might handle despite it having aspects of another?”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he was curious, and not just for himself. Not that he wanted Ayla anywhere near Illian’s dealings...</span>