Perhaps it's my keen Elven intuition. [there's not such thing, don't listen to him] Or maybe I've just seen my share of commanders.

[He withhold a chuckle from the boy's show of arrogance. It was cute really. And sad.
It was one thing to bring him here, but not this one. He was too young to this.

The last bit gets a laugh out of him though, not because of the situation as much as the gross understatement of it. Like he was walking down the street and wound up in a war camp in the middle of nowhere.]

You and me both, da'len, and considering some of the odd turns my life has taken me, that is saying something.