It had been a long night for Cayde-6. He's had plenty of long nights in this place, but it's been... well, he lost track of time somewhere in his second week, but it's been a while since he's had to worry about someone else's neck being on the line. He's checked three of their rendezvous points, with no sign of Crow at any of them, and he found the dozens of gruesome possibilities that kept racing through his mind increasingly difficult to ignore.
So when he hears idle chatter as he comes up to check their fourth rendezvous, he's relieved enough not to scold them for being loud enough for him to hear them from so far away. He's about to jump up and announce himself when he hears it. And maybe it was a bit scummy to eavesdrop, but the two of them aren't exactly share each other's life stories, so if he could get a better read on the guy, he'd take the chance.
"But what if Spider's not behaving?" is the frustrated sentence he hears spill out of the younger Hunter, and he pauses, wondering what the crime lord had done that Crow was involved in.
"The Vanguard will catch him." Glint reasoned calmly.
"But what if they don't?" Crow pressed. "You know how we always catch him eyeing the younger Guardians. If he tries what he did with me, they'd be too afraid of losing their Ghosts to speak up."
"Mithrax knows what to look out for." Glint reassured him, while Cayde mentally chewed on the... potential implications of that sentence. "And you told Saladin about what happened. And Spider knows that Saladin knows."
"Yeah. Wish I'd been there for it." Crow snorts, pausing before dropping his voice to mimic the Titan's. "'If I hear even a whisper about bombs in Ghosts, I'm going to shove my axe so far up your cloaca you'll be able to taste it'."
Glint giggled. Cayde tried to imagine anyone putting a bomb in him. The Ghost was so sweet, it was actually a little sick sometimes...
He was also the most hopeful person Cayde had ever met.
"I miss Saladin." Crow's voice was so quiet, he almost didn't hear it. "I... I could really use some of his advice about now. About the whole... Cayde thing."
"Maybe you two should just talk to each other about what happened back then?" Glint suggested. Crow scoffed at that.
"I'm not touching that with a ten foot arc staff." You and me both. He intentionally scrapped his boot across the ground, and jumped up before whistling.
"You two in there? How's that two hours of sleep working for you?" He could process his new and violent emotions regarding The Spider later. For now, they had a job to get back to.