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♞  ▌  Nile's days off at the Dawk Compound weren't the kind that most would imagine. One could argued that he didn't more work when he was at home than he ever did anywhere near the office. He could vouch to say the same thing if he really put his mind to it. Who knew that managing his little family unit took more effort than babysitting an army. Shouldn't it be the other way around? 

Regardless, he had made plans for this afternoon. So had Marie apparently when she became all huffy with her husband over the fact that she needed to attend some stupid knitting circle meeting in town. Okay, whatever. She was knocked up again and by the third time around he knew better than to try reasoning with her when she had her mind set on something that wasn't sticking around the house and handling their two other spawn. Therefore, day off meant Dad Time and that was both fantastic and terrible. Terrible in the sense that all he wanted to do was catch up on his sleep and being unable to, and fantastic in... Well, Nile liked spending actual time with his kids. He wasn't Dad Of The Year material but he did his best with what small fortune he was given. 

And if anyone appreciated him with all of his blunders and faults, it was his blissfully unaware children who didn't have to know how much of a fuck-up Daddy could be on a normal basis or the harshness of the world he tried to shield them from. He could take all of reality's punches because he didn't feel that they had to. Call it one of his last truly good deeds to have under his belt. 

♞  ▎ He looked up from the papers in his hand as she more or less dropped her whole body into the offered chair. Yeah, there was no hiding this one. Erwin had tried to be so discreet with what had been going on with his soldiers and now one of them was haphazardly trying to catch her breath after what looked as though she had been running a marathon. She was carrying her weight in some obvious places that he was no stranger to observing on a female.

"I could have guessed..." He trailed off actually just thinking aloud. Nile set his papers down and rose to fetch the poor thing some water. "What do you mean sort of, hm?" He was still grouchy as ever but the commander was very sensitive to this... kind of thing. He spared her one of his scotch glasses and a pitcher of water after actually leaving for a few moments so that she could chew on his question. The glass clicked against the desktop once filled and sat in front of her. 

"You need to go camping more."

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She wasn't exactly hiding, yet amusement lit cerulean hues as she stepped into his line of vision. Human couldn't see her so she wasn't expect it, well not when they were humans like Ichigo and his family however. Lifting a hand, she waved it infront of his face without saving a word.

♞  ▎ Shit taking a turn for the bizarre wasn't new. Just the uneasiness of what he was feeling made the Commander a little antsy. The cold wafted about in front of his nose, flitting over his eyes and prompting him to reel back on his heel to such a concentrated, chilling breeze. An incredible chill that whirled about like icy fingers. It wasn't funny before and it wasn't funny now--

♞  ▎ Call it a funny feeling— Not the typical kind that anyone would get from walking around Sina late at night. Even this city slept occasionally. It had specific hours where its streets consisted only of Garrison and Police Officers wandering about. Nile was no exception, though it was less about duty and more about barhopping. That was the nature of the beast.

Anyway, back to the funny feeling. 

His steps were not stumbling. His posture was… decent. It straightened when he was struck by something cold in his wake that caused him to whirl about on his heel. There was no one else present save for a few bums and newsies sleeping in alleyways. His eyes darted about and he called out—

♞  ▎ Oh good. Erwin caught the error of his ways right off the bat. That made Nile's job of explaining Levi's shitty behavior almost null. "He was awful as usual. Shocking, I know." The other man shook his head, hopped his gaze to the floor, and the back up to the blonde, "I'm surprised you let him off the leash for so wrong. Especially over such a..." A beat, "Tricky subject of discussion."