It is a cheap shot, and Leo tenses under his hand when it’s put there. Bringing his family into this feels wrong. Everything Huvrye is saying feels wrong, setting off alarm bells in Leo’s head.

“Soldiers aren’t expendable. They’re still people.” He says it from the position of a strategist thinking about the next move: the people who he’s directing aren’t pawns, and if the strategist ever forgets then they’ll let anyone die to win. Leo never wants to be a leader who would do that.

(He doesn’t realize that Huvrye might not be thinking of himself as a person to start. That’s unthinkable.)

“And… and you have family, too.” He can’t say for sure about the people Huvrye talks about from home, but… “Or what are me and Hunter, chopped liver?”