"Perhaps," Vol said.
"We give our lives for gold, knowing very well that we could die. Cheap pleasures – that is our aim. When the shackles of the world no longer seem to have any point, we decide to risk it all for the simple pleasures that will fill the gap," Vale said. "But you… I think you have the strangest reason out of all of us for this path. You did not fall into it out of emptiness. You're one of the few that love the battle. You're like Silverfish… Well, no one is quite like Silverfish."
"Silverfish and I have different aims still, I imagine," Vol said.
"True enough. He looks for a wife for himself," Vale said. "And you turn away every woman that comes within a distance of you… Why is that, I wonder?"
She wasn't looking at him with the eyes of a soldier anymore. They were the eyes of a curious woman.