"He is, in a way. I think being a parent just makes you feel differently about things. Like I'm not properly protected if he can't see what's protecting me. I've always wanted in on fights and he's always wanted me out of them - parents protect their children to the death, and kaa are a little outside his gut-reaction zone for knowing I'm okay," she elaborated. Then she laughed, practically a snort, and lifted the sword off her lap.

"Either that or he just thinks I'm going to be more trouble than I was before learning to use one of these and I'll run after any criminal that moves. He still doesn't know I went after Whiplash with literally nothing," she said, shaking her head. "Children'll protect parents to the death, too."