After Archimedes was done having its little staring contest with Sten - resounding in a resounding victory for the bird, since the psyker had turned away - it hopped up onto Anna's shoulder, and began muttering quietly. Mostly, it just muttered indistinctly. Anna couldn't make out half the words it said. Though, she did hear it say that Sten had been looking at her. Probably out of contempt, she figured. Or regarding her as an actual person, now that she was grating on his soul and his nerves just by being there. Either way, it wasn't exactly important. He could think whatever he wanted about her, wouldn't change a thing.

While she made no move, her ears perked as one of the sister's spoke up, while Archimedes rose its head and glared at her. Ignoring the fact that Mary had addressed the elder Inquisitor, Anna still had an opinion, and while she may not have been a full fledged Inquisitor, she still had enough rank to say whatever she wanted to the sister. Archimedes flapped his wings, knocking Anna on the side of the head, as if trying to warn her to keep her mouth shut. She ignored it, and spoke up. "Sister, those men out there are doing the Holy One's work, helping us out. Killing them would be unjust, unfair, and [i]not[/i] the righteous thing to do. If you do go to meet them, you should let them go. You might think them scum, but they are just doing what they have to to survive." She left out the part about her once being part of a gang and having sympathies with them, and just hunched back over, folding her arms across her knees. Any response the Sister would give was ignored, as well as any comments from Xersus.

Meanwhile, Archimedes muttered something about the medic in her ear, but she ignored it in lieu of the conversation the Tech Priest was trying to strike up. Talking about the Guard. Yes, that was right, he'd been in the Guard, hadn't he? As well as the psyker. At least they had one thing in common with her. Rather than speak up again, she whispered something to Archimedes, who turned and stared at the psyker and Tech Priest with rapt attention. A small click came from it, and it went rigid, watching them carefully.