[color=6ecff6][i]Team A is down. Fuyuki is empty.[/i][/color]

That's what Scarlett took away from the words of their Director, a man she didn't dedicate space in her memories to, as he answered Capricorn; the questions he posed were simple, yet their Director had to bring himself to answer plainly... [color=add8e6][i]Perhaps, because, he knew he had no convenient answer...[/i][/color]

A problem, in and of itself, if one considered the daunting nature of the task set before them.

Scarlett didn't look away from her book, nor pause her scribblings, as she proffered, "[color=add8e6]Shut it down, then, and start over. If they've failed, that should not become our immediate problem. Death is a suitable punishment for failing to perform as they should have on Humanity's behalf. Besides, History remembers dead losers more fondly...[/color]"

Stowing her book away, Scarlett would take a thick binder out with a trio of pens in red, black, and blue and multiple papers - student essays. More invested in grading her students' papers, she didn't look up to see the emotional or physical reactions to her suggestion -- no, not really a suggestion.

[b][i]A solution.[/i][/b]

If Team A failed their mission, sending Team B in behind them recklessly was a foolish course of action.

"[color=add8e6] Additionally, there's no apparent reason for us to rush in, so I'll ask, from one teacher to another, Director,[/color]" Scarlett continues, finally looking up, "[color=add8e6]To what end should we achieve victory where they did not? Pyrrhic? Guns blazing? How would you like us to end up, so you can have a better idea of what to tell Team C when we fail?[/color]"

Her Director would be confronted by the cold and indifferent eyes of someone that had seen and caused countless deaths; friend or foe; guilty or innocent; and become hardened to it. Scarlett, truly, did not care about Team A, nor her position on Team B, but the fact she was being sent on a mission in critical condition and spiralling out of his control as the next best option when she'd so many lessons to grade.