He stared, long and hard, assimilating the information, before explaining. "My use of camouflage while hiking is unusual, in that it helps me blend in. The orange vest that 'fool' wore was a safety vest to let other human hunters know that what they were shooting at was not an animal, but another human. When we can consistently put a shot into a target the size of a gold coin at half a mile, and cause steel several inches thick to MELT with just focused light, you can agree that prevention is the only way to avoid having your head explode like an overly ripe watermelon being dropped from the treetops.<br/><br/>As for the rest, I doubt he was enough of a MONSTER like the one before you to do what you need to do. Soldiers are in an odd position back home, honored, but also feared. Honored, because we give up our freedoms to fight, possibly die, and likely get maimed for life because we lack healing magic. If you lose a hand, it is GONE. Right now, we have nothing to replace it, other than a crude prosthetic that doesn't move unless you do so. If you break your spine, you are PERMANENTLY paralyzed from the injury down the spine. We are quite good at KILLING things, but healing? That is a better trick, and much, much, MUCH harder to do.<br/><br/>As for my comment about being a monster, I joined, yes, I volunteered to join a military, and found I was very good at it. Almost frightfully so. I am not, and will not, ever be more than a sergeant, I don't have the patience for politics, and tend to just go for the throat of the current problem. Hence why I got the others. They can decide which throat needs to be opened, and I can do it. IF necessary. Because sometimes, it is better to not kill, but to utterly annihilate everything else in their life, their honor, prestige, family, money, everything but their life. THAT is why I am here, Meridia, and I don't think you will understand that I am a totally different sort of animal than this world has yet seen. It might have the various pieces to make me scattered about, but it lacks a way to bring them all together into the whole before you."