Lena & Paladin Headcanon #2
The majority of Lena and Paladin's exchanges during business hours is Paladin sitting silently as Lena suffers through yet another meeting with a board member who thinks she's too young/pretty/female to run her family's company, and then at any given moment asking Lena "Can we eat this one?"
It's mostly just for fun, because even though they can, Paladin doesn't actually like eating humans. It squicks her out a little bit. But the idea makes Lena laugh just a little every time she silently responds "no, eating is not how we address chauvinism/misogyny/sheer dumbfuckery in business."
Then Morgan Edge rolls up, and he hits all of their buttons. He's condescending, rude, and makes Lena out to be the bad guy bc she wants to enrich the community rather than exploit it.
Paladin senses something different in Lena this time, as they watch Edge leave with a smug smirk on his face.
"This one?" Paladin asks faintly, lacking her usual teasing. This time it's almost tentative, a question that hangs in a moment of silence as though Lena is actually considering it.