She managed not to roll her eyes at Victor’s attitude, starting to understand the amazons’ plight of dealing with this all the time. The Russian let the others speak their piece first. Some of the most effective lies were based on truth. Nice to see Sean seemed to be headed in that direction, at least as far as she knew, as it more or less matched what she was going to do. If the others had spun some wild tale, she might have had to adjust her line of bullshit on the spot. Sean even led into it by accident. She left a brief pause after Sean was done, waiting to see if Bethan wanted to add anything onto it before speaking up. “And some fucking road that was, all the way from the South.” Yekaterina chuckled, “Leeeeeeet's just say my former employers and I aren’t on speaking terms anymore, and I thought it would be wise to make new friends elsewhere and get out of sight and out of mind as they say. Where I came from, not only do the walls have ears, but they like to get friendly with walls elsewhere so they know what’s going on all around the globe. And unfortunately, a cozy, high-paying job at a diamond mine isn’t the most inconspicuous way to disappear for a while. And as Sean here pointed out, this comes with a lot less paperwork, so here I am.”

Good thing they were seated on the side seats, because that allowed her to see both Victor and some of her companions, watching for any hint of two and two coming together. The incident wasn’t covered on Russian news, then again a lot wasn’t, but the western world had a knack for digging up the Motherland’s secrets, and who knows where a corporation like SAMC had ears of its own? A dozen civilian and five GRU casualties. Could that slip through the intelligence gathering net? Surely not. Only question then was if the news trickled down to the other three operators, if they were still in favor with their employers by that point. The others will probably take exception to that second part when - not if - it comes up. Seemed to be the part Moscow was bothered by at the very least, though for different reasons.

“I wouldn’t call what we have ‘proper’ tools quite yet, we’re still missing a few things, but that’s nothing another handful of weird coal couldn’t fix.” They were still pretty much naked when rounds started flying. Personally, she would’ve liked four class 4 plates at least for her inner peace, but that would probably remain nothing more than a dream for a few weeks or more. “And Sean? If you’re wanted in Britain and they find you on your beach in Spain, aren’t you getting sent right back to old Albion? I guess on the bright side, you’d get to fly with British Airways for free, silver lining right?” She added with a grin before turning back to Victor, asking a question of her own to test the waters. “This introduction you mentioned? Renting us out to an associate of yours?”