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

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

[ 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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[Walking over to check on her eventually]

How's the damage?

...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.

[Glancing at the service drones, is that Aña?]

You're used to shooting yourself in the back?

Dolls like me aren't really built for our self-preservation instinct.

Would you have done it if we hadn't been there to pull you out?

...

I don't think so. Or, it's more...if you weren't there nobody would've had to die to protect you.

We are capable of fighting without anyone dying for us. That's our job.

And killing them is mine. I know you're all very strong, but a gun can't solve every problem in the world.

[Doesn't point out that you were using guns]

I know it can't. But soldiers are still worth more alive than dead.

[ listen

it would've taken really long for her to rip out all of her organs with her hands. ]

...Still. You would've died if you didn't run. And running wasn't an option. Or...possible, probably.

Is that so? Thank you for acting to protect us. In future we will do our best to avoid being so unprepared.

...You couldn't have prepared for that. It wasn't ever supposed to leave its cell. I think Titania broke something...

We went into the dragon's cave after. It had been released.

You said you spoke to Titania before you met us, didn't you?

Oh...yes! I go down to talk to her every day.

Where do you talk to her? Do you see her face to face?

No, she doesn't have a body. I usually talk to her drones if I'm talking to anything that isn't just her voice.

[No body will make it harder to punch her that's a shame]

I see. What did you talk to her about?

Hopes, dreams, thoughts, feelings...um...it's kind of embarrassing, but she...really likes me. A lot.

...Hmm. She did get very angry with us carrying you away.

...I really should've warned you, I'm sorry. She didn't do anything too bad, did she?

. . .

[Slowly raises her ruined arms]

That was her?

Her turrets.

[ she just

immediately flings an arm up, levitating one of the drones which she brings close to her face -- ]

Aña. Do not. These are our friends, do you understand me?

[ there's a moment of silence, and then out of nowhere Kahlua growls. ]

I know you were worried, but once again, it was your fault. If you weren't so jealous -- ! Next time there will be consequences. Do you understand? Good.

[ and then she just tosses it across the room. ]

[...Doki

No shit wait focus]

You can talk to her through that? Wasn’t it healing you?

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