voice

[invasif]

You left me to die.

[ Soft with buried rage and spite. ]

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[valuedstrength]

What happened?

[invasif]

I faced that thing alone. All those I descended with, to offer my power and light to, had left me.

[valuedstrength]

Actually left you or were separated from you? There is a difference.

[invasif]

Ah, you're here to make excuses.

[valuedstrength]

No, I'm here to find out if we have a group here careless enough to ditch a member of their team on an exploration mission. If we can't trust each other, we've got nothing.

[invasif]

We can't trust each other. Hasn't that been made clear enough?

[valuedstrength]

It hasn't. As far as I can tell, you and the others were slaughtered down there trying to work out what was happening. That has less to do with trust than a problem with these missions overall.

If we had any intelligence before we left, we wouldn't have to literally search for it in the dark. Kids wouldn't have died. You wouldn't have died.

[invasif]

Astoria is unstable, to expect anything from her is foolish. We have only ourselves.

[valuedstrength]

That's my point. A team can fail. We're all people at the end of the day. Sometimes people don't win in life or death situations. You know firsthand how terrible that is.

What I can't abide by is carelessness with someone's life. [And why he asked for clarification. The difference between fighting hard and failing anyways and giving up is vast. He has to know which group he's fighting with.]

[invasif]

[ Firsthand. He doesn't even know what horrors she has seen and she seethes at his impertinence. ]

We need to be so much more. This is no one person's peril. Worlds are being consumed.