TEAM GRENADINE: HOME BASE - DEC 25TH 20XX, 11:31 AM UCT

[mysquadnow]

[ Welcome home, Grenadine! It was a long, hard fight but now you have time to rest. Eagle was tol busy arguing with Vodka to actually debrief you most of the morning, so you've been free to wander the base grounds. Most of it is destroyed though -- half collapsed or burned towers, a once large landscape garden which has been entirely burnt out, the recreation building full of unusable electronics and gym equipment and singed books and other such things. You've been told only to go as far out to the chapel, right outside the gates in order to keep a low profile, so you might as well have fun. ]

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EAGLE'S DREAM

[mysquadnow]

[ At some point in the day, Eagle finally calls you to the command center for debriefing. She's frazzled, as always, and looks absolutely dead from having spent the past few hours yelling at a dog on the talkymachine. ]

Okay, okay. So explain again what happened, this time with detail. Especially the part where Kahlua's half dead.

Re: EAGLE'S DREAM

[recycledhero]

[Sorry did you want me to focus on anything other than my dog now

...fine I guess I'll be a good soldier and report.]

As soon as we entered the elevator, Titania cut the line, and we crashed. We made our way to a command centre, where we met Kahlua. She warned us of a containment breach, and so we made our way forward, clearing out an office from an infestation of death mice.

Then a dragon attacked, and Kahlua shot herself in the back taking it down.

We repaired what damage we could and made our exit through the tunnel's in the dragon's cave, until we got to the elevator back here.

Re: EAGLE'S DREAM

[mysquadnow]

Titania did what.

Re: EAGLE'S DREAM

[sovority]

[Violette is probably better at impartial reporting anyway.]

I'd like to ask Kahlua about that part myself, honestly.

Re: EAGLE'S DREAM

[mysquadnow]

...

Was it the fucking dragon?

KAHLUA

[livestodestroy]

[ There's a bunch of tiny service drones skittering around the premises now, busily working away at keeping the place a touch away from falling apart. A few have also taken to doing some emergency repairs on Kahlua, who is laying on a bench in the command center. She can even talk now, kind of! ]

Re: KAHLUA

[recycledhero]

[Walking over to check on her eventually]

How's the damage?

Re: KAHLUA

[livestodestroy]

...I'm doing okay. I can't move or anything and everything still hurts but Aña's taking good care of me..I'm used to this, anyway.

Re: KAHLUA

[sovority]

[Ambling on over at some point.]

You awake?

Re: KAHLUA

[livestodestroy]

Oh...yes! Hello, sir.

[notbitteratall]

[ at some point when she is less [massofvibratinggbees.gif] she comes back and settles nearby, carefully out of the way of the drones ]

[livestodestroy]

[ she looks over, slowly ]

Oh -- you're...um...you're that girl.

[ you know, that girl whomst exist. ]

[notbitteratall]

[ the literal instant she can mostly convince herself that everyone is okay enough not to need her she is quietly peeling away to go find someplace outdoors where she can just collapse in an untidy heap and and stare into space for a while. this is fine! she's fine! she just needs a few minutes, and then she'll rejoin everyone. it's only for a little while. ]

[sovority]

[Eimir's making the rounds, checking on everyone individually before he lets himself try to wind down at all, so of course it isn't long before he's coming to disturb her peace, idly holding in his guts with his meat snake wrapped tight around his waist. Problem solving.]

Amaretto.

[notbitteratall]

[ IF IT WORKS IT WORKS

she blinks once in his direction, and promptly starts tidying her limbs into something more resembling a proper loaf. hello! I'm fine! ]

—Major Eimir. ...Shouldn't you be resting?

[recycledhero]

[The instant they enter, and St Germaine starts barking Violette forgets everything else that has happened and focuses in on that, gasping.] Germaine- Germaine! [For the first time since any of you have met her, Violette is smiling, so wide and so bright, tears welling at the corner of her eyes.]

[notbitteratall]

[ comes embarrassingly close to just. dropping Kahlua. GAWKING ]

Oh—

[recycledhero]

[She's so, so happy, so relieved, falling to her knees and hugging her dog tight.]

Welcome back.

[Violette does hear Amaretto though, and looks up at her.]

Amaretto... Thank you.

[sovority]

[Eimir lets loose a blatantly relieved noise at... all of that, really. He'd like to be more subtle but he's a bit distractable right now.]

[recycledhero]

[He may not be particularly subtle, but she's very focused on her dog right now, falling down to her knees and hugging her as tight as she can with her ruined arms, welcoming her back. But she did hear it, and after taking a moment to delight in the return of her beloved companion, will look up at Eimir and smile at him too.] Thank you, Eimir.

[junkheap]

[On the one hand he's happy she's happy about the dog, on the other he... has no idea how he feels about Violette right now!!

So he's just kinda. Watching her. Really intently.]

[recycledhero]

[After their last conversation, she's not keen on engaging him. Violette is focused on Germaine, falling to her knees and hugging her as tight as she can with her arms still wrecked. When the others look at her, she smiles gratefully back at them and thanks them for everything.

But when she notices Shiraz staring, her smile falters, she makes brief eye contact before turning away to pet Germaine again.]

[junkheap]

[As soon as he was sure that the team would be fine, Shiraz slipped out of sight.

He can be found in the burnt-out garden, sitting on the ground fiddling with some charred rock or other. He's been picking them up and stacking them pointlessly.

He's lost in thought but not opposed to interactions. Somehow he's not following Amaretto but he's also not coming back on his own until he's called for.]

[notbitteratall]

[ why are we both like this

at some point when she's done being a swarm of bees (or at least come to the conclusion that just sitting still means way more time to think about the things that are already making her vibrate), she'll come by as she scouts out the base. ]

Oh— Shiraz.

[ wait ]

...I'm sorry, were you— did you want to be left alone?

[sovority]

[Eimir is cruising around trying to approach everyone one-on-one for at least a little while, so he's eventually finding Shiraz and casually coming to sit beside him... gingerly, because he's holding in his guts with his meatsnake, but hey. it works.]