She still couldn't believe it.

After all the adrenalin had gone, and after she had time to sit down and think properly, she still couldn't believe it. She had been talking with them just yesterday, joked about with them, and glared at the super everytime he opens his mouth, but she had never even considered they could just.... die. Disappear out of her life, mentioned only in passing by some grim officer to her. She had never even dreamed such a thing could be possible.

Perhaps... this was what they called the illusion of immortality, the feeling that nothing truly bad could ever happen to you or to anyone around you. Or did they call it something else?

In any case, she had survived her emergency session at the medical bay, and barely a day after she was called upon to meet a stuffy officer, who no doubt wants more information or give them a sound lecture on some subject or the other. Milya didn't really care, or more accurately she couldn't. Somehow everything right now seemed.. cloudy, unreal. As if she was floating about in a dream. Did her friends really die? Did the product of their hard work get stolen under their noses? 

She would probably feel anger some time later, and perhaps followed by a burning desire for vengeance. But for now, all she had was this empty feeling in her stomach, as if all of a sudden a void had appeared. Milya was sure this feeling would remain for some time....