Brandr shook his head. "I doth not enter each battle planning to die. No warrior does, else he wouldst only last a single battle. Art I prepared to die? Accepting of it shouldst it happen? Yes. But mine duty ist not to die for the young lord. Mine duty ist to protect him." He spoke as he retrieved his dagger from the simulation.
"I art a Crimson Hawk, and we art the elite of Asgard's warriors. When we join, we hath but one duty and purpose. To protect Asgard and the royal family. To shirk this duty, to move our responsibilities unto another, that is the utmost dishonour. Ye think I art not pragmatic, nor do not see the bigger picture. I do. I art pragmatic when I fight for duty, but this ist not duty. Thou forgets, I did not fight alongside thee or Thor's children for that mission, no, I stayed with the Lady to protect her as we retrieved the young lord. Because that wast mine duty. As for the bigger picture thine paints...I see it, it ist admirable, but it sets aside duty. And honour."
He sheaths his dagger now, along with his blade. "Mine father doth not have the same duties as I, and he wast never bound by duty as I art. The Warriors Three hath a freedom not available to the Crimson Hawks. Thou must understand the difference. Hath I stayed behind on the mission to rescue the young lord, it wouldst be not only not doing mine duty, but putting mine duties upon others. And e'en if one day I shouldst be as known as the Warriors Three, that failure to continue mine duty will follow me throughout mine days. A Crimson Hawk ist as good as their adherence to duty, e'en if they doth not agree with it, and e'en if it conflicts with desires and self-preservation." He thought of his mother's tales of the time Loki possessed Odin, and the orders she had to carry out that she didn't agree with. Yes, duty above all, that's what she'd drilled into him.
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