[Vex smiles at Caleb's laugh. It's a good laugh, full of amusement and a sort of tentative fondness. She could get used to it. Besides, his thoughts about her aren't wrong and fit very well with her weapon of choice: eloquent, pretty and sharp as hell.]

You make them sound like my friends, but you're much kinder than I am. Sometimes, Vox Machina does some very stupid things that backfire spectacularly on us, but we're resourceful enough to find a way out of it.

[She just hopes there isn't a day when that's not the case. They've all lost so much already and there's always the chance that they could lose more ahead.]