Chapter 165 - Rebuilding (2/2)

Aldrich's intentions sounded noble, and they were, but his words had layers to them He showed hi Haven, the city that most of the people here had called hoain their trust

Because if Aldrich was going to be a Sentinel, he needed both territory and people Without a good su a Sentinel became weaker Granted, Aldrich did not think these people were absolutely necessary for his case, but any amount of help mattered

In his mind, Aldrich did not particularly care whether these people were actually of any real use or not in rebuilding the city All he wanted for the because the reater number of voices them would be to support Aldrich

Plus, Aldrich could help them out as well in retum It was a low risk deal where everyone won out with in the end if things paid off

The older policeot a ords, Ell tell you that Had you been otten out I'll bet on you"

"Me too"

"Sa for me" "All in over here as well"

Aldrich heard and saw in facial expressions that reed The only ones that did not were those that probably felt it safer to move to another city because they probably had the means to Most of the injured heroes there fell into this category because the AA gave the neork

Aldrich did not care about them If they wanted to leave, then they could They becanificant in his eyes once they decided to leave, for they had no real use for him

As for the others that did express intent to stay-

Aldrich sat down co everyone's attention back to hiet tired," said the older polices to do than sitting down here with us"

"Not really," said Aldrich "I want to talk to all of you that want to stay Get to know you and your nas work out, well all be working together"

Like that Aldrich spent the next near hour talking with the people there, getting to know them as promised He did not know exactly how to comfort them when they talked to him about their losses and their fears for a very uncertain future, but he figured he would start to try

Aldrich had never been a particularly e a Lich had dampened his eh, sitting beside Aldrich and taking over when conversations got too sentiate well Despite Seisy exterior, he still kne to connect with people and guide theh their losses even withthat Aldrich noted was that it was not really the words theeneric condolences of Tet better' and so on were not that different from what Seiss that made a difference Ms words felt closer, more heartfelt Aldrich did not know yet how to talk like that, but he would ask Seismic later hoas done

Once around forty minutes passed, the talks were cut short as a firhout speakers within the bunker

"Seisilante, I need to ask both of you exit the shelter," said the voice "The doors will open in five seconds, and I want both of you to come up here peacefully