[He chuckles low under his breath, shaking the rain from his fingertips before following suit. That's his girl.] Not due to a shortage of cleverness, I imagine.
[In truth he'd found little aside from a small pocket of resistance-- nothing worth spent effort and nothing he was particularly satisfied with, but not every assignment was, and he's lived long enough to know that much by default.] They're growing cautious.
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[In truth he'd found little aside from a small pocket of resistance-- nothing worth spent effort and nothing he was particularly satisfied with, but not every assignment was, and he's lived long enough to know that much by default.] They're growing cautious.
Someone is aiding them.