"Aside from shirking responsibility?" It could cut, those words, but he tempers them with a crackle of laughter. An old joke from a decade ago because isn't it funny, Alistair, that he is in charge. Is it not hilarious that people listen and that, perhaps, he actually has a choice in how he uses this power?

Alistair cannot blame him for doing what little he can to keep him safe. Or he could to be a contrary shit but right now he is shirtless and peeling the bandages away from his ribs, smile still painted on. "I needed you above in case they got it in their heads to attack the camps. They would have no warning otherwise."