five. (voice.)

[reconnaissance]

Uh. Okay.

As far as I can tell, Pete, Mitsuki and Fi aren't here any more. So I hope if any of you lot knew 'em, you made them feel appreciated while they were here.

( Her tone is vitriol and anger, and frustration because she knows she didn't. If there's anyone she can be counted on to let down, it's Fiona Maxwell. And now she's gone. )

And if you didn't know 'em, then you missed out. They were good bloody people. All right?

Are there any other Australians here, or am I just special, again?

( She's angry, maybe unreasonable, she knows it. But seriously, fuck all you guys. And by that she means The Initiative. )

Shit.


( well, that cheeriness interlude was nice while it lasted )

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[reconnaissance]

Yeah. I'm a real ball of optimism and sunshine.

My "kingdom" got invaded. I don't think it's going to survive. We're getting killed and enslaved, so far as I can see it.

It's pretty shit, yeah.

What about your kingdom?

[marked_for_death]

[Kingdom's being invaded isn't new to her at all. It's almost like a common occurrence for her.]

It is a common practice of those who invade to do such things. Otherwise they leave themselves open to rebellion and attack once 'peace' has returned.

I have no kingdom. The one I was born into is no more. It was a hungry wolf that thought it was unbeatable against their neighbours.

[reconnaissance]

They're getting a gutful of it before there's a chance for this to become 'peace.'

Christ. That's rough.

( She has no idea how to respond to that. The thought of home not existing anymore... it was difficult enough getting her head around it in Exsilium. )

[marked_for_death]

Then there is always the chance to win that war.

Perhaps, but that land was dead to me long before that. [That's only mostly true, but Elza doesn't make any mention of that.]