[quote=@Tengri]
[@Liliya]

"You're wrong. We hurt people. We only hurt people. We hurt people that hurt other people, hoping they won't come back. It doesn't matter whom we hurt. On the other hand, why we hurt them is all that matters. 

Her aunt is a criminal, willing or not. I don't want to say she is a bad person, but we're still finding new bodies in the rubble, and some of them had masks on. And so, we will stop her again. Not because we want to.

Nothing can prepare us for what will come. But we can try. We have to. 

It's our duty. If we don't prepare to carry them, nobody will. As a team. Because I am not good enough. And neither are you. Nobody here can stop even a bootleg copy of Dragoon. Not alone. 

Polaris... Alex, have I ever failed you before?"
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"Andrea already proved that she could stand up to her aunt. We already [u]beat[/u] Dragoon, together. If she gets out, and becomes a problem, we'll face it as a team, like we always do. And no, you've never failed me, Robert," she couldn't remember the last time she'd used his actual name, it'd been near on a year at least since the whole Malcolm thing had started, but he seemed so... Personable, and open, vulnerable for once. It was a rare display of care that he would bring up something like his loyalty, and he was loyal, always had been. Of course Alex would use it to step on his feelings. "So far as I can tell, the only one here who [b]hasn't[/b] proven that they can face someone they care about, is [b]you[/b]. Could you do it? Fight Nucleus, [i]kill[/I] her? She's as susceptible to brainwashing as Dragoon ever was, she's just as smart as you, and more dangerous than Dragoon and Arsen combined," half compliment got buried in there somehow, calling Malcolm as smart as Nucleus. Maybe she just felt bad about her supposed leadership position, and wondered if Malcolm wasn't the one who should be calling the shots. Then again, should he? He'd have them all strangle puppies to display dissociative properties if he had his way. War time commander, maybe, but a peace time leader? Never.