Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free

Chaos rolled his eyes skyward, sighed, then shook his head. "Wow. Just... wow. It must be something in the Imperialis name, see a Destruction and that's all she wrote." Wasn't that just a lovely conundrum? And right after Valentine had stripped Rhyme and his inbred and slavebred pups of the Imperialis name, too. Rhyme was going to be extra reasonable about this whole thing. Not. "Ok, yeah." He puffed out a deep breath. "Yeah, obviously they can't stay with the Destructions. They've fucked up enough of our family's kids." And, he thought privately to himself, obviously going to Ash's little pirate gang wasn't much of an option either, because that would turn out oh so well and there weren't enough Imperialis running around that they could afford to have another branch pruned off the family tree for fuckuppityness. Hell, if one of Rhyme's non-inbred runts showed promise, Chaos would be inclined to bring them over to Legion too, assuming Rhyme and his slave mate hadn't fucked them all up too, despite them no longer being officially part of the family, but at this point there was probably no chance of that. "They need to be here," he added firmly. "I'll talk to Rhyme, see if I can convince him to be reasonable about it. Imperialis pups belong to the Imperialis. If we can't convince him..." He shrugged eloquently. "Well, my mom had a solution to that problem, didn't she?" He gave Ash a crooked grin. "The sooner the better, I'd guess? I'll challenge for each of them individually if I have to, if Rhyme or Shaye give me no choice, but I admit it would be a lot easier if we get there in time so we don't have to carry them and drag your Destruction girl back too."