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terance listened carefully, his ears swiveled and flicked as he kept comments to himself and, completely oppositely, had no answers to give her. rannoch was scatterbrained these days, part of parenthood on top of leadership on top of... well, life. but he wouldn't make excuses for rannoch, he knew his friend wouldn't want him to. 

"liffey stepped down," terance reminded her shortly, not that that meant anything. rannoch did, though terance didn't like to phrase it this way, have his head up liffey's ass. 

instead of countering her arguments, thoughtfully, and fairly open endedly, terance offered-- "what if you didn't need permission?" and then, to clarify slightly, terance added, "more responsibility means a definite need for you, as well."