[Maybe he'd just... wanted to believe it. He knew, probably, there was more to it. Knew it on a deeper level than he wanted to admit. Even to himself.]
[But he'd had more work to do. He'd had to move on. To keep fighting the fight when no one else would. Or could. Retirement was for people who didn't bear the Crusader Armor.]
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[But he'd had more work to do. He'd had to move on. To keep fighting the fight when no one else would. Or could. Retirement was for people who didn't bear the Crusader Armor.]
[He tilts his head.]
The recall?
[It hasn't happened yet, in his timeline.]