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After what happened, that fight. It's made me wonder.

[More like, after a conversation with McCrane sempai. But that was private, and he won't bring it up now. At least he sounds more confident than he usually does. He looks it, too. Then again, with that bland expression on his face, who can tell?]

Police aren't meant to be as soldiers are. Are they? That isn't what I... [He almost grimaces.] What little the programming tells me, is that.

Would it be better for all of us here, if those in charge of our law enforcement were less like that. More... as police officers? Less of discontent warriors?

[Yeah, that's right, he's talkin' bout you, Prowl. He pauses, and then his tone turns much more fond, warming around the edges:]

And Kay. If you're hearing me... we have work to do. Don't we?

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[constituent]

[ This is obviously something she hasn't heard about yet; but Shepard can't help but give her two cents, especially to the AI. ]

They can be both, but that's my experience. Discontent warriors or not.

I've got a couple of friends that have been both. Some were police that made better soldiers, and vice versa.

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But what is better?

I wasn't made to be a soldier. [He wasn't technically made to be a police officer, either but that's nor important right now so.] I don't want to have to change what I am to be part of a team.

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[ Her gaze narrows, not accusingly, but in thought. ]

That's an essential part of being a team; not changing, but compromise.

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Part of them accept that. They... accept me now. It's more than I ever expected.

[They're not the problem, which he figures he doesn't need to explain.]

... And one of us already feels as if he needs to change himself. In order to stay part of this force.

I don't want that to happen to him, any more than I want it to happen to myself.