>>5133798 Her lone eye burning a hole into you. You ignored the sudden tension and continued. "But let's talk of more substantial things, how was Alpha? Did you remain only on your base or were you able to go to other facilities?" Without giving Castilla a break you continue the assault. But she stood her ground, without a moment to slip up she replied intently. "Alpha was far from an ordeal, quite a few were dropped into lower selection groups. Or down right into regular infantry, but we all passed with top Synchronization rates. Besides exercise and weapons training we underwent a mix of Lo-Freq and tapered interference. Not the most intense neural loads, but we were put to the test. And yes, we underwent joint exercises and training with a few ministry police units. Mainly recon prep, map reading and that sort of team building exercises. We get weekends off every third week in a month, we were allowed to go home to see family… How about you Corporal?" You knew your turn to give an answer would come, so you held nothing back.
Training and your own tests, they didn't speak, but you could tell they hadn't expected the intense treatment. "You're all pretty lucky, I've spent the last two years pretty much alone, so excuse me if I'm a little bit rusty when it comes to social interaction. But wait till you see me in a shootout." Castilla laughs, it's a shrill but deep thing. Natural, unrestrained and pretty adorable. Her eye seemed to have softened, the girls clearly noticed the slip in tension. Formality was eroding. "Oh, and where do you all come from?" You wondered, it wasn't like you'd know any of the places. But hey, it couldn't hurt to know.
Another voice spoke up, a soft and almost delicate sound. A whispered rasp weighed the tone down, looking over you saw the voice belonged to Brigitta. "Callista and Yiva are both from Little Vurgandy, Lucy is from Halii in the east. Sophia is from Graznochek. And lil' old me grew up in the mountains. What about you?" You had dreaded this question, no one had answered the way you would. They all knew, they all had someplace to call home. You had nothing but the cold. "I can't remember it's name, it was so long ago... All I remember is the snow and the stone houses. But it was all just moments before the ministry got me." You avoided their eyes as you explained, none of them said anything. You noticed Brigitta lean toward you, but thankfully someone stopped her. You weren't going to cry, but the day was really getting to you. Just yesterday you were truly alone. And now. Now you were drowning in people to befriend. People just like you, or well… close enough.
>What do you do, Pilot?>What do you say? Write in.>Excuse yourself and sit alone?>Excuse yourself and talk to someone else? Write in>Talk to the Alpha girls? Write in 