One Big Step

She hadn't known? Hattori was not so suspicious to presume she was lying, why would she? And what would she even gain from that? He supposed if nothing else it was just good fortune on her part, or at least he assumed that was her interpretation of it all through her mannerisms. It seemed as though she was already familiar with Nami, that at least for a year she wanted to put an ender to her loner, wandering ways. The Maze wasn't a prison by any means, wolves were allowed to leave if they truly wanted to, but at long as they made themselves clear and didn't try to deceive him, Hattori often had no qualms.

"I do not need persuading." He told her, a very slight tint of dryness to his tone. He had seen her work, she was a capable fighter and had navigated Boreas and Auster to its near entirety. Hattori doubted anyone knew this place quite as well as she did. "There is a place for you here, for as long as you need it."