Lee's first thoughts upon seeing who the person in the pod actually was were neither helpful, nor practical, or really even appropriate to the situation.

[i]'Oh my God she's hot.'[/i]

Thankfully he didn't blurt those potentially lethal words out loud as soon as he thought them since he at least had some self-constraint, and the split-second internal reaction over his opinion about her attractiveness was soon overcome as he began to fully digest the situation. The woman was from Vangar, and she was a princess at that, and apparently the only known survivor of the sky battle everyone had witnessed earlier. While he didn't blame her for her hostility, considering the situation, her abrasive nature came as a surprise to him. Gideon always went on and on about how royalty and the like always have to be proper, and that being a WARDEN was something that allowed him to act out against that since it was expected for military folk in general to act and speak brashly. Yet here was a princess swearing and threatening to blow them all up, somehow out-rebelling Gideon, a guy who had become infamous in the media as an icon of royal rebellion. Lee tried to think back to see if he could remember ever hearing about Vangar's princess or what she was like, but he soon remembered that he actually paid close to zero attention about anything involving politics and ended up drawing a blank.

During this train of thoughts of his, he eventually realized that Setzer Gideon and Galahad had taken the lead in the conversation with the princess (was her name Colette?), though really Gideon and Galahad lead the conversation while Setzer acted like Setzer and was already flirting with her. Though maybe it couldn't really be called flirting if the only response he was getting back was being struck in the ribs. But more importantly, the other two were talking about actually important things, like immediately getting the hell out of the crater and finding safety. The second Gideon had mentioned for the others to maybe set up a perimeter, Lee was ready to jump right on that, but the conversation soon made it turn out that just getting out of there as quickly as possible would be the more preferable outcome. And Lee wasn't about to argue that.

"Second ship?" Lee repeated when it was brought up, and looked up as well but didn't see anything. But then he noticed Trent. His friend had seemed distracted by something during the trek to the crater, but now he seemed to be focused as he stared skyward and made motions with his free hand. Lee's own look he was giving Trent began to become tense as he started to connect the dots.

"Can you hear something?" Lee asked, somewhat aware that Trent could 'hear' the Astral Mist though not exactly sure how it worked for him, "Is...is there something up there?" Lee looked upwards again and gulped. This was so bad. "Guys, I'm not saying we should run, but let's pick up the fucking pace." The thread still wasn't picking up any vibrations from the truck's direction which meant they hadn't been followed, but if there was a ship in the sky that they couldn't see, then being able to foresee a ground ambush didn't matter if enemies could be deployed from the sky.