Phase Eight: Recrimination

[emorangerpink]

[Laura's in the brig.

It's at her own insistence, as soon as she was awake enough to insist. Once the medics were okay with letting her out of their sight, she went in to a cell. She's staying there until as much has been done to confirm she doesn't have any more surprises buried in the back of her mind as was done for Cheng, and then some. And it's noticeable to anyone who's used to her appearance that her ever-present amplifier is not on her wrist.

If you want to talk to her, it might take a while. Aside from the exhaustion of the fight, she's spending some of her time awake curled up in tears or otherwise unresponsive. Still - if you're patient, or time your visit right, she'll be able to speak, if you have something to say.]

Comments

[aceshighsniper.livejournal.com]

[A fellow Britannian girl sits nearby, knees tucked to her chest, staring away from the cell.]

What will happen now?

[emorangerpink]

[Laura stares at the ceiling, not moving from where she was lying on the bunk when Lyn arrive.]

...I don't know. Mr. Dantoinne is... crazy. He thinks the Shifting Entities are emissaries of God, that the people they kill are brought to a higher plane. Now that he has the crystal...

He's probably going to summon all the SEs he can, and use them to kill as many people as he can. Walk them right through all opposition and detonate them in the middle of cities. If they're being directed by a human...

The attacks four years ago were bad. This will be... worse.

[aceshighsniper.livejournal.com]

We will know what to do. We had many enemies and we have survived no matter what.

[Against all odds, the little witch has dodged everything from asphyxiation, from falling from the stratosphere, to being blown apart.]

I am very afraid. But I don't want to see what happened on that satellite again.

[emorangerpink]

[Laura closes her eyes. That attack she'd heard about... worse than most of what she'd seen in the old days, and Lyn was younger now than she'd been when she'd joined SECT.]

They're trying to find out if there's anything... anything else I can be triggered to do. If there isn't, if I'm safe... I'll be doing everything I can to stop him.

And even if I'm not... Devon's been looking for this fight for years. Frank had a lot of friends on board. And the crew aren't going to just stand by and let someone try to destroy the world.

...I'm scared, too. But... we can beat this.