![]() “And they’re trying to hide it, by fanning out at various points, except of course around the cargo.”Īnd indeed, the “squads” were packed closer together around the ferries and the ship itself. “Correct.” A laser pointer waved over the sets of baatezu - barbazu, orthon, barbazu, each of them. I, and probably every other teen in the room, took a closer look. A few were in the process of ferrying boxes around, but the rest were just standing, prim and proper. The bearded and armor-fused troops, respectively, were not doing anything in particular, actually. “Take a good look at the troops on the ground. Slowly, a picture of the Falconer’s Lament swam into focus. “What I am doing, however, is to fully explain what is at stake here.” She moved in front of her desk for the full effect. I am not censuring her for informing you of the full situation, I should have done that myself, and she did make precautions when giving you the debrief.” Several, including, most recently, not realizing the amount of stress Adrasteia would be under or rescinding the order in regards to you once it became obvious. “Wards - I will admit, I’ve made mistakes. I could already see firm musculature, almost like a statue that hadn’t quite been fully carved from its stone block yet. Tall, and probably exactly as imposing as she wanted to be, especially given how she was already a lot less heavyset than when I met her. Nope, she would go right back to exercise and toning herself in case she was ever needed on the field. No, the Director was a soldier, born and bred, and whatever her faults were, I never smelled any degree of cowardice. It shouldn’t have been a shock after finally getting over herself to restore her pancreas to full functionality, I guessed Piggot wouldn’t be the kind of person to permanently affix herself behind a desk if she could help it. “To impress upon you the sheer responsibility you all now share with her.” “To be fair, I didn’t need to call the rest of you in here. I see someone at least comprehends the chain of command.” Dennis and Vista were giving Piggot a glare that, combined was nearly as intense as her own, Carlos, Dean, and Tybalt looked more than a bit disgruntled and unsettled, and even Sophia looked a bit upset by the proceedings (or at least not glorying in karma). Slowly, my teammates settled down, looking more than a bit upset by this turn of events. ![]() “-and now she’s the villain, you hypocritical-” That was what finally burst the dam holding back the Wards’ (and Tybalt’s) responses Less chance of being separated in a high-stress situation that way.” Hebert has volunteered to be part of a new initiative involving GPS tracking of the Wards while on missions. And indeed, when the tracking bracelet was dredged up from beneath her desk, I just breathed an internal sigh of relief it wasn’t worse. So, I am letting you off relatively lightly.” ![]() “Thankfully, you also seem to be fully aware of this sheer idiocy of what you did right then and there, and you began some degree of damage control. “Be glad that, despite your repeated presence in my office, and your appearance generally heralding catastrophe, that this is somehow the first time you are completely at fault!”Īnd just like that, she calmed down. “When it was eminently possible to, say, leave the room and then release stress there, with only telling Carlos instead of every damn person in the room that there was actionable intelligence somewhere.” “And of course, there is also the fact that this happened directly in front of the very reason it was made secret in the first place.” The glare narrowed even further. A counter I was sure would be the antithesis of help.Īpparently satisfied nobody was backtalking her, Piggot continued. I couldn’t smell anything new from Dennis, but I could feel the counter that must have been on his lips. Thankfully, Carlos had somehow convinced the other Wards to remain silent. “Of course,” she continued, affixing me in particular with that glare of hers, “if certain persons were more capable of controlling their anger, that wouldn’t be as much of an error on my part.” Piggot had called in all the Wards this time, presumably because the whole “secrecy” thing wasn’t working. Specifically, how there was a lot of speech I could forgive if the scent matched the contents. The past few weeks had really impressed on me the value of self-awareness as a quality, I had found. “So, the inevitable happened,” Piggot muttered. ![]()
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