Valerie swept her hair back and re-adjusted her goggles, nodding subtly to Thomas, she rolled her shoulders and glanced back to the Receptionist who'd lost interest in her, seems like she -was- Valerie! Good thing too, otherwise she'd have some form of identity crisis whilst out of breath. If that happened she might just conk it. She looked to her comms unit which ceased it's buzzing then looked over her outfit, more specifically her boots, and sighed. She drew in a big breath before managing a "I'm going... To have to clean these." murmured between breaths to herself. She gave them a kick, dust and mud crumbling a little off her, onto the floor. The most uncomfortable feeling, however was being too hot, burning from embarrassment at wheezing loudly in front of the crew, her crew (Sort of) as an introduction. Talk about first impressions.

She looked up and her eyes snapped quickly to Erik, her happy, kind gaze became one more harsh, judging and analysing before easing to a subtle kindness, in fact. That emotion almost.. Flickered across her face. There and then gone in another moment, maybe the first time around her you'd think it was just your mind playing tricks on you! That obviously isn't the case, though. "Yeah, something like that!" she said, loudly and laughed, then she waved a hand dismissively, as if the topic wasn't important "The actual running bit was just from the nearest city which turned out to be a -lot- longer away from here than it looked!" she exclaimed, her voice raising as if it were a sort of joke. She blinked a few times, rubbing her eyes and huffed a sigh. She straightened herself, feeling somewhat uncomfortable with the pretty much nothingness to do, except, that is, introduce herself a little better.