Meanwhile, during the mission that half-didn't happen

[aceshigh_sword]

[[Yesterday, the Major was minutes from sortie, for her only to silently withdraw. She didn't say a word to anyone; not Yoshika, not Shirley, not the rest of the sortie squad... she simply withdrew before taking off.

And she looked pissed.

In short order, she was looking for her Ensign... and nobody was going to stop her...

Though you might could stumble along and wonder why she suddenly didn't deploy, or might carefully be navigating the halls still in her strikers.]]