He noted Chir'daki's odd dissassociation from the organisation that paid him, and felt intrigued by the possibilities it hinted at. He'd known that getting Black Sun on their side would not be an easy task; it always involved politics, and he didn't like the cloak-and-dagger side of it that it entailed. But something about the agent's words told him there might be a simple fix to it yet.

"They might like it if they got to keep a percentage of some of the bounties. They might also see the benefit of it if it meant their own people were freed up to go about other business. Of course, if they have any psychopaths who need to make a kill every once in a week or so they would be free to join the guild themselves. We're not a competitor."

He didn't like that sort of creature, himself, and he certainly didn't like killing for the fun of it, but he knew they existed, and was sure the Guild would find something to do for them if they really wanted to.

But now he needed to put out the bait that would net this aiwha.

"But Black Sun aside, we would like to welcome you back into the Guild. There are no clans this time, but you'd do well as a lieutenant of the guild, overseeing perhaps any of the hunters dealing solely with Black Sun matters ... would you not think?"

The guild was still a theoretic construct so far; none of the details had been set in stone, but as the Guild master's second he felt secure enough to know that offering Chir'daki a job like that wasn't impossible to carry out. Darven suspected Ecks was making his own plans for further lieutenants; he himself had two more so far.