Recognizing a mistake and taking steps to correct it. Maybe there was hope for him yet. And as far as she could tell, he wasn’t even talking out of his arse. And she knew. She was shamelessly reading his thoughts up until that point, the week preceding this briefing having continued in the spirit of the crew v. Albion. If only that was the end of it, as their numbers started dropping like flies in a room where the air was replaced with bugspray. At the very least there was a silver lining to the drop in numbers for her, as less people on board made it a lot easier to time her sleep so there wouldn’t be anyone around to unknowingly invade her mind with their thoughts when she hit the sack. And then the whole Titan nonsense happened, and any ease sleeping went to shit in the form of constant worry.

With the briefing concluded, Avelyn approached Joey wearing a barely concealed smirk on her face. [color=#FF2E00]“Apology accepted, though I need one more thing from you.”[/color] She paused long enough for him to ask what, [color=#FF2E00]“Some information, none of us know how to fly the damn thing.”[/color] She quickly grabbed his hand while she still spoke, focusing on any of Joey’s memories that had anything to do with the ship. [color=#FF2E00]“Oooh, so [i]that[/i] is what that switch does, okay, don’t touch that, got it.”[/color] She joked as she finished, [color=#FF2E00]“Oh, ‘less-than-lethal - Weapons or equipment intended to be less likely to kill a living target than conventional weapons such as knives and firearms with live ammunition.’ Might be good to at least try, if circumstances allow it, we’re trying to convince the other rebels that we’re on their side, right? Good luck.”[/color]

After the briefing concluded, she made a detour to her cabin to clear out her things. Who knew how long they’d be gone? Upon reaching the hangar bay, she hung back to give the two lovebirds some space, only approaching once Flame had gone. [color=#FF2E00]“Hey, why the long face? Separation can only be beneficial, you can’t be together all the time. My father used to be gone for months at a time, but it only made us all the more excited to see him again and spend time with him.”[/color] She tried to cheer the younger Star Marine up, having eavesdropped from across the bay with her prosthetics. [color=#FF2E00]“So, when are we setting out?”[/color] She asked Ashton, implicitly considering him to be in charge despite having made it clear some time ago that she viewed the whole money debacle as his fault. [color=#FF2E00]“What’s on the itinerary, and in what order?”[/color]