Very, very carefully, Nihlus takes a moment to try and clamp down on his tongue. Spirits knows he's done awful things for the sake of maintaining peace. He has no higher moral ground to speak of, not even where children were concerned, and pissing Texas off while in unfamiliar territory wasn't the best of ideas.

"Here I was thinking you were against brainwashing or something."

His tone is light and conversational and sharp as a shard of glass.

Without waiting for an answer, he turns to Sister and asks, "Is it just you and the pile of mayonnaise here then? Or are there others?"

Like this 'Sarge', perhaps?

These people had some pretty weird nicknames even for human military.