An: So episode 4... wow. Honestly I'm a little scared of how it's going to end, what were your thoughts going into episode 5?
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Rumour had it Max was being scouted for recruitment by the darker side of the Hunter corps.
Huntsmen did not exclusively hunt Grimm and many served in support roles or other loosely related fields, professor Oobleck was one such example, preferring the realms of academia and research to a more combative role.
The vast majority of course acted as field operatives in the never-ending battle to keep the Grimm at bay.
As a rule Huntsmen tended to be far removed from military and public affairs and it was very rarely that situations arose when they did.
War was an obvious exception, thankfully even though tensions were somewhat high strung at the moment in light of recent events, they were currently at peace.
The hunting of rouge Huntsmen and other dangerous fugitives, as well as less publicized and frowned upon operations however were, while distasteful, a necessity even in times or relative peace.
And it was for these sorts of things that Max was in all likelihood being recruited for.
Her talent for telling when someone was lying and ability at unearthing even their darkest secrets made her ideal for an interrogator working in the infamous 'Dark Room' who might otherwise be required to use forceful persuasion to extract information; and that was just the most morally reassuring of Max probable futures that Ruby could foresee.
In all reality forceful interrogation would probably be just one of many of the things Max would be doing, with her abilities there was no way she wouldn't be put in the field.
Ruby wasn't blind to the darkness of the world, and though she didn't like to think about it, she knew that Huntresses were sometimes called upon to stain their hands with blood, and already she'd had her fair share of face offs with more human adversaries; though thankfully she hadn't yet been called on to take a life and hopefully never would.
Most didn't make it to forty without losing a limb or two and she herself would have likely lost several friends before she reached twenty five.
The deaths of her own mother and Max's parents stood tribute to that.
All the same she was happy for her friend, she just hopped she'd be safe, something told her there was a storm coming.
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An: The Dark Room is the 'unofficial' name for the infamous detainment facility where high profile detainees are interrogated. I like slipping in little stuff like that and the 'storm' at the end.