[ He doesn't have a better strategy yet. He doesn't even know yet if this is the wrong one. That's the trouble with not knowing who you're working for. All he knows is he doesn't like it.
He holds her gaze and lets his hand falls away from the deck. ]
We'll be available to you for the duration of your time on the Station, but the next time you leave here it will be in the name of real service. Avera 9 was merely an outing organized by The Prince and us for your benefit; when you go to do proper work, we will have to stay here.
[There is a hum from her, a crawling sensation across the link between them. It is an unpleasant reality - though traveling with them might mean superior numbers, better mission results simply due to hers and the Prince's experience, the consensus can't deny the danger of it. As they are the only ones capable of operating the Station at this time, of overseeing the hatch of new hosts, to accompany them would be a ludicrous risk - utterly unjustifiable.]
We hope it won't be for many cycles yet, but can guarantee nothing. However, it's unlikely you'll be wholly alone wherever you go. If it's a difficult situation, it may come to pass that there are other agents on the ground with you.
[There, a small barrier in him. She feels it like a gauzy cloth stretched between them, all the light of him coming through the weft of it but a layer of remove nonetheless.]
We believe so. This is, after all, Station number seventy-two.
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He holds her gaze and lets his hand falls away from the deck. ]
How long will we have you both here to guide us?
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[There is a hum from her, a crawling sensation across the link between them. It is an unpleasant reality - though traveling with them might mean superior numbers, better mission results simply due to hers and the Prince's experience, the consensus can't deny the danger of it. As they are the only ones capable of operating the Station at this time, of overseeing the hatch of new hosts, to accompany them would be a ludicrous risk - utterly unjustifiable.]
We hope it won't be for many cycles yet, but can guarantee nothing. However, it's unlikely you'll be wholly alone wherever you go. If it's a difficult situation, it may come to pass that there are other agents on the ground with you.
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Other agents, from other Stations? [ Has she been to other Stations? ]
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We believe so. This is, after all, Station number seventy-two.