"Because customer service is gross," Tamsin said, which was only partly to stall for time, really. "But really, I come from a battlefield, law enforcement kind of family."

Well, that was technically accurate.

"Most of my family growing up were military. Nurses or soldiers," she said. "So I went into service. Military first, then private sector." Which, again, was at least an accurate if misleading way of summing up the past over-a-thousand-years. "When I got the opportunity to join the police force, it just seemed more useful, I guess."

Somewhat to her. Mostly to the Morrigan.