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"We have time to kill, dear."
"I've seen worse at this point." You shrug off the fact she looks like a burnt piece of jerky. "You're going to be okay with, you know, her?" You nod your head in the only hallway forward.
Naomi's cloudy grey eye, which you only now notice, stares at you. Judging you. Her smile is gone now. "We will when we get there." She immediately regains her smile after she switches the target. "We simply have to carry on, dear."
Touchy subject. Best not to pressure her too much about it. "So. You said you thought you were desensitized when you were outside of REFINEMENT. Was it really that bad? Can't say I'm not curious after hearing that."
"It's something a human mind could not comprehend. Thankfully, I'm not much of a human after the things I've done and seen." Her words ooze with equal parts snide sarcasm and genial wisdom. "My former comrades were trying to fuel it with someone they kidnapped. Feet first. It was not pleasant to see. Especially when the machine started to vomit."
The mental image alone is nearly enough to make you puke. "...Well then. I'm glad you can keep? up your high spirits?"
"You learn to develop a sense of humor like this, dear. It's not wise to let emotions and fear seep into your heart when you deal with things outside of normal human perception." Naomi continues to fiddle around with the knife in her hand. "I will say. Your competency in this mission has been admirable."
"Hm?" You're curious what she meant by that.
"Keeping several high value targets alive, not letting any allies die, using resources to the best of your ability...even that foul meat I smell seems like it's from an important figure. <span class="mu-g">I have to respect what you've done.</span>"
>+0.5 RAPPORT and +1 RESTRAINT to NAOMI! NOW AT 4/4 RESTRAINT AND 2.5/8 RAPPORT!
"Hey, I'm not being paid nearly 14 hundred dollars to be a bad worker, eh? We gotta do the things we gotta do in order to make it in this fuckin' industry." You really wish you could smoke right now but alas, the only cigarettes you have would obliterate your lungs beyond repair in a single toke. "I take pride in a good job done, you know?"
"Respectable. I suppose we're close to the end now. Anything more would simply be greedily taking more and more of this abandoned facility's treasures until our gullets are full. Like wild animals." Despite what she's saying, she seems oddly happy? "Good. There's nothing left but ghosts and regret here. Erase the past, take what is ours."
"I suppose it's time we should carry on, Nicole?"
"Sure, sure." You turn your attentions back to your other allies and what Sable has been doing to them.
"AND THAT'S WHEN WE TOLD THAT FUCKING SPOOK IF HE BELIEVED IN GOD AND HE WAS CRYING LIKE A LITTLE BITCH-" Sable is rambling on and on about your past achievements while your allies, still hesitant about dealing with an anomalous spirit, listen on with rapt gazes and awestruck smirks.
Naomi snaps her fingers. "Let's get going."
