Dev chewed off a large chunk of his fruit with a pout. “Am I here to give you his biography? Like, come on. I shaved hours off my work schedule while the world out there is about to get f****d in the ass. Show some compassion.”
I straightened. “Sorry.” I’d give Ausmane a piece of me when he got home—but I didn’t know what to say either after all I’d learned about him. “I never knew humans also worked at the VDA.”
“The VDA is meant to be a human-centric agency,” he said. “Obviously, not everyone can work there as they please, and humans definitely can’t be Guardians.”
“I can guess why. Only volyrs can kill each other and still not die.”
He laughed and went to throw away his apple core. “It’s more than that. The human and volyr guilds agreed to let only volyrs hunt each other. Don’t want
