[b]Alicia Hayden[/b]

Yawning, Alicia made her way onto the deck of the ship, glancing up at the large castle that was nearby with a slowly growing determination as she shook off the weariness which had seeped further in courtesy of her nap. She'd have wanted to take more time after a show like that, but unfortunately Justine wouldn't be so considerate. She would just have to do her best in the circumstances that they had and hope that she didn't have any more troubles that she was unprepared for. 

Everyone else seemed ready to go, and she stepped in to join everyone else as they observed their target on the deck. "Of course she is. I'd be expecting trouble if I was enacting my grand ritual," she commented aloud, perhaps a bit grumpy because of the exhaustion and the overall situation she was in. 

Still, they at least had a basic plan. Three teams, attack the castle, free the captured girls if they were in a condition to be freed, and a two pronged assault from air and land. Of course Alexander immediately volunteered to go into the dungeon, so he could get Lily back. But that wasn't the most important part that she took out of it. No, the name jogged her memory, flashing her beck to the conversation that had brought Mariette into this little temporary alliance of theirs.

Turning to Mariette, she wasted no time in pursuing that line of thought. "You mentioned Sonia before," she noted aloud. "If you know what she can do, now would be a good time to mention it." Mariette had said something about the girl making Justine untouchable for just Mariette herself, hence why they were in this whole situation. She just didn't know why it was the case. 

In the meanwhile, Amber presented a plan for them to follow, in her 'I'm the pirate captain therefore I'm in charge' role. She shot Amber a skeptical look, if only because she found herself dubious about the wiseness of some of these choices. "Am I going with the underground team because I know light magic? Because it feels like I am. My powers are a lot more limited in tight enclosed spaces you know." Her specialization was bombardment magic after all, and she couldn't really bombard in an indoor corridor without hitting someone else at the same time. 

Still, she didn't offer up her own assessment of what she thought the teams should be. She didn't have much experience with the other girls aside from Suwako, Scout, Alexander to some extent, and Penny. The same might be true in reverse, though she was fairly confident that she had given a good enough demonstration that her strength laid in being able to really hit a lot, which didn't work indoors. 

....To be honest, she also wasn't sure how many of the people here would consider her and Suwako more [i]expendable[/i] than the others just because they came from Beacon. They were in a pretty solid minority here, and she would be damned if someone else threw them up to be sacrificed for the mission or their own survival or whatever. They might all be on the same side but they had only fought together once, and with everything that had occurred since Justine had begun this plot, she wasn't ready to put her life into anyone elses hands. Especially not Mariette's.

"I agree with her," she agreed, nodding towards Makoto. "Justine knows we're coming, so we should give our main assault forces the best chance we can to either draw her attention or to get further inside her castle. That should make it easier for the team going after the prisoners, since she'll have to pull resources to fend us off, even knowing that we're coming."