secondnature: (i'm  a power ranger)
keith keith, the liger man ([personal profile] secondnature) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology 2018-05-10 05:46 pm (UTC)

I think it's better to keep someone with your abilities running goods. We don't have a whole lot of people like you around. I'd like to keep you in the best place I can. [There's a switch that his tone makes there, and it's a switch she's probably never heard before. For all of Keith's different moods, and for how Rey is very aware of them, she's never seen him slip into leadership like this. There's a surprisingly affable quality about him when she says exactly the thing to draw it out of him.]

Well ... running and tricking people into handing over their money for a better cause. If you don't mind keeping up the double duty, I'm gonna keep you on this.

[For all the tenseness of the previous conversation, he does muster up a smile, too. It's probably strange, but this is where the Leaderly Keith has been hiding all along. Typically, he keeps it concealed under a self-conscious worry that he won't do well. Even when he lead people against Zymandis to save the taraxan hosts, he had been worried about how he might be perceived, and he had been on edge because he was forcing himself there.

Here, it's clear that he's at least fully into what he's doing.]

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