Kimblee actually didn't seem fazed by that at all; he'd expected it, really.
"I'll thank you to watch your accusations, Miss Altava - but no, it certainly wasn't Olivine. There were entirely too many people in that city for me to be comfortable working there; I'm a soldier, not a healer, and when it comes to normal jobs outside of the military, I had never worked a day in my life besides. I took the job because the pay was good, but I wasn't about to do so in a place that highly populated, where I would have a good amount of contact with patients. I went up north again, where it's much less densely-populated and business, as it were, would be slow - I'm not about to take lives into my hands with no idea of what I'm doing."
He toyed with the knife a bit between his fingers before returning to cutting at the steak with it; really, he was doing more of that than he was eating it, but he couldn't exactly say he cared terribly much.
"I'm not denying that it was possibly someone within the organization. What I'm saying is that this particular attack was the work of individuals; there have been no orders issued to make a move against Miss Farron. Nothing official has been stated one way or the other in regards to what we're supposed to do about those on that list - and since my partner is on it, believe me, I'm paying attention to it.
You need to remain calm, Miss Altava - believe me, I won't do anything that will allow harm to befall Isaac or yourself, or anyone else on that list."
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"I'll thank you to watch your accusations, Miss Altava - but no, it certainly wasn't Olivine. There were entirely too many people in that city for me to be comfortable working there; I'm a soldier, not a healer, and when it comes to normal jobs outside of the military, I had never worked a day in my life besides. I took the job because the pay was good, but I wasn't about to do so in a place that highly populated, where I would have a good amount of contact with patients. I went up north again, where it's much less densely-populated and business, as it were, would be slow - I'm not about to take lives into my hands with no idea of what I'm doing."
He toyed with the knife a bit between his fingers before returning to cutting at the steak with it; really, he was doing more of that than he was eating it, but he couldn't exactly say he cared terribly much.
"I'm not denying that it was possibly someone within the organization. What I'm saying is that this particular attack was the work of individuals; there have been no orders issued to make a move against Miss Farron. Nothing official has been stated one way or the other in regards to what we're supposed to do about those on that list - and since my partner is on it, believe me, I'm paying attention to it.
You need to remain calm, Miss Altava - believe me, I won't do anything that will allow harm to befall Isaac or yourself, or anyone else on that list."