Lucy finished her meal and was wiping her mouth when the new recruits arrived. Despite actually passing the Eagle Claw Test, she still considers them recruits; they haven't been bloodied and broken yet, so they're still fresh meat in her eyes. As she was thinking of the next test to put the recruits through, Devon growled out his displeasure at Lucy's methods. He wouldn't be the first, but like all the others, nothing he said was going to stop her. She had a goal and she was going to continue it. Devon would simply have to get used to it, or if he really wanted to stop what she was doing, he would have to get put down. Eagle Claw or not. When he asked about the possible wounded and dead, Lucy wondered if he meant that rhetorically, speaking out of emotions rather than actual concern. Still, someone does need to go out there and collect the bodies. [b]"Assuming these two are the only survivors, there are seven corpses outside that need to be found. Six possibly, if one of the recruits managed to shield himself from the snowstorm. Number eight died on arrival."[/b] Lucy stood up to put away her plate, but that last sentence was directed to the two recruits. She didn't say anything to them, she didn't even look at them, but that statement "Number eight died on arrival." was her own way of berating the two that they could have saved Annabeth. They just carried her on their shoulders, exposing her to the elements when it was nature itself that was killing her. Perhaps now is not the best place to point out how the efforts of the two recruits where in vain, but if they have learned anything from their time training from Lucy, they should know that she was disappointed in them. But that's nothing new.

Before she did leave, Devon mentioned how she seemed to be giving the recruits her brand of training for some sadistic fun. She clenched her fist, but her voice was colder than the blizzard outside. It was as unemotional as the bullets she puts into the bodies of her enemies. [b]"Eagle Claw is not for pleasure. If I can kill them with basic tests, they are not ready for a true mission."[/b] Although Lucy trains new recruits to the point of death, she was holding Eagle Claw to a high standard. A standard that was, perhaps, much higher than what everyone else held them to. She doesn't expect or want people to come to Eagle Claw because they had talent and potential, and only needed a place to master it; They should already be the masters of what they do, and they should already have something to give to Eagle Claw the moment they stepped into the camp. Their training just keeps their skills sharp; if they weren't already elites coming into Eagle Claw, they would be dead leaving it. And Lucy aimed to makes sure that was true.

After putting her dishes away Lucy headed towards her workshop. As the demolitionist on the team, she felt that she needed a heavier explosive power than merely her ballistic fist. It was good for small group encounters, but in light of news that the NCR has access to vehicles (Data was still uncertain as to what kind of vehicles) Lucy wasn't going to take any chances. Normally she wouldn't jump to conclusions, like the NCR having their own tanks, but she didn't expect them to have an air force either. So she was going to need to develop an anti-vehicle weapon. And inside her workshop was what was going to be used as the base; [url=http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110928235437/fallout/images/a/ad/Esther.png]Esther[/url], the nuclear weapon developed by the Gun Runners. Currently Lucy didn't have the clearances to take it out with her on field missions, and she had no intentions to either. Ammo was hard to secure not to mention volition. Plus, she had her own modifications she wanted to add to it. Starting with the Mini Nukes.