Adi gripped her plastic comb tightly. The new girl was overbearing, ranting about things she'd never heard of. Asuka? What was an Asuka? She was using lt like a proper name, like it was something she, Adi, was meant to know. NERV worked on secrets and lies, it was so hard to tell what was real and what wasn't. Her legally appointed guardian for the few months she'd spent at Osaka-2 didn't legally exist, a fact he loved making jokes over. She missed that guy. He was fun. What in holy blazes was a kindergarden, either? It sounded vaguely german. Garden for kindling? Like a forest full of bad trees waiting for fire to strike?

She blinked. The girl had stopped, with an expression like she was about to cry. She'd been talking about herself. Three years in this job, which surprised her. She didn't even know NERV recruited children up until a year or so ago, when they'd found her. Heck, she'd only been inside one of these Eva things once. It had been dark and wet, building shook a bit, then they let her out. She didn't even get to see what all the fuss was about.

"I'm Adi. Adi Kaur Dhawa- Please don't cry." She began, face full of concern. She reached into a pocket of her coat and pulled out a dagger. Okay, that was probably a bad thing to pull out right now. She left it on the chair, discretely, and pulled out her hankercheif, handing it to the girl