“So the reason why I kept having to go on duty is because you kept writing letters to your daughter?”
the gryphon guard asked as they walked down the hall to the exercise room in the compound, and star had just nodded as she kept her eyes forward.
“I went on a personal mission and got stuck here, I didn’t want her to be worried about where I was and if I was ok so I’m keeping in touch with her,”
she had said, as her gryphon escort mouthed a surprised wow while he looked away.
“By the way, I don't think I caught your name sir guard, what should I call you?”
the question seemed to surprise him and when he looked at her he noticed that she was still keeping her eyes on the path in front of them, and he decided to quietly comply.
“My name is Windbreaker, but can call me sir or whatever else you want, as long as it’s not degrading,”
Star had let out a small giggle and he sighed as he rolled his eyes in annoyance and embarrassment,
“Yeah yeah, laugh it up, it’s not like you’d understand having a name so easy to make into a joke and I shouldn’t have expected you to understand that,”
“Oh but I do understand, and I never said I didn’t like your name, it’s different and I like it, although, my baby might find it amusing when I tell her about you,”
he seemed surprised by this but stayed quiet about it before eventually bringing it up, in the most careful way he could.
“Why would you do that? I mean, I’m not that interesting and I’m expendable as far as I’m concerned, why would your daughter want to hear about me?”
Star stopped walking and looked at him, and as he noticed that she stopped he did as well and turned to her, as their eyes met.
“Are you kidding me? you are anything but expendable, you're the first gryphon who hasn’t been mean to me or had a fetish for dangerous life threatening fights, not to mention your not a power hungry pain,”
she walked up to his side and put a hoof on his shoulder,
“And the next time you say something stupid like that, I’m going to punch your beak in,”
she smiled a fake smile for a second before beginning to walk again, and Windbreaker took a deep breath before beginning to walk with her again.
****
After doing some cardio and lifting some of the weights Star had moved to a punching bag in the far left corner of the room, and Windbreaker was going to spot her while she trained.
“What’s bounty hunting like? I mean, I’ve heard things but I want to know how you feel about it and if you actually like it,”
Star had begun punching the bag around the time he began to speak but since he spoke in between the punches she managed to hear him clearly.
“It’s like you're in a more lenient military, we are given missions and sometimes a team and we're given the chance to take care of the mission any way we see fit, as long as we follow the rules about what condition the victim needs to be in to receive our payment. So to make a long story short, it really depends on how capable we are in situations that don’t always abide the government's rules,”
Star had begun to pant as she began to slow down, and sat with her back against a wall while Windbreaker got her some water.
“So how does this work, do you just choose to be a bounty hunter or are you in an agency?”
Star drank a mouthful of water and called him to sit beside her, and he did after looking around the room to make sure that they weren't being watched.
“there are many agencies that involve bounty hunters, but there are only two types of agencies that deal with bounty hunters, ones that work within a region and ones that work with an alliance. I chose to do the ladder so I could have more opportunities,”
she drank another mouthful and he looked up at the ceiling as he thought hard about what agency she was working with.
“Which alliance did you decide to go with?”
he said, and his answer came back almost as he asked.
“The pony gryphon Alliance, so not only could I work with and support my kind, but I can honour the kind of my lost friend and help keep the peace between us all, little by little. Heck, even my boss is a gryphon and a very respectful one at that,”
when she said this she had chuckled, and she was now wearing a prideful smile as she began to think about getting him into the alliance agency as well.