Now even without the introduction and the armour, he could have guessed she was some sort of career soldier. It was the way she'd gone from neutral to attack in about half a second. Much faster than any enlisted men he'd met so far, then again, a lot of the enlisted men he'd met were bandaged up and on stretchers, so maybe that didn't count.

"Familiars? Not outside of Halloween." He said, "I guess were we come from, we just call them pets."

He'd been unthinkingly reaching out to touch the lizard, but paused with his hand half-way towards it when she continued. "The Maine Hawks?" He asked, with a bit more of a grin, "Or maybe you're from the other side of the family, the God-Only-Knows-Where Hawks?"