[It is messed up, but that's life behind the walls and why Sasha sounds like it ain't no big thing because to be honest, at least she had a parent. Too many kids didn't.]

We had an argument about how he thought we would be better off raising horses for the government and helping the people from other towns who were moving in on our territory instead of hunting like we always did, but I didn't think we should help people who didn't think that much about us in the first place. He told me I was a coward and I'm not so I left home to join the military after he told me to leave. That was a few years ago when I was twelve, so I don't know how he's doing now.

[Which also means she doesn't know if he is alive or dead and Sasha is secretly too fearful to go around asking and find out something bad happened.]

So he's your bodyguard? You're allowed to be friends with your bodyguard?