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Callie sucked in a breath – assessing, revising…  Calming.  [color=f7941d][i]He got her.  Good.[/i][/color]

[color=f7941d][i]That was…[/i][/color]  She shook her head, tuning back into the conversation.  [color=f7941d][i]Analyse later.  Concentrate now, on…[/i][/color]  A pause, to process what Myron had said while her thoughts spooled down from their prior hyperactivity.  [color=f7941d][i]His aide betrayed him in Cambodia?  What?[/i][/color]  Callie pursed her lips, taking a moment to purge the adrenaline from her system and the fragments of half-realised foci from her mind.  [color=f7941d][i]Missed [/i]far[i] too much from that mission.[/i][/color]

Letting Charter drop from her hand to reach instead for her fallen rifle, Callie flicked the safety back and checked it over, the practised process steadying.  Nothing wrong, at least superficially, and so she half-jogged to join Myron beside the three half-conscious souls, kneeling down –

“Thankfully, Callie and Cristina have been here since the beginning or close to it, so you can ask them for help.”

[color=f7941d][i]Oh, so that’s how it is.[/i][/color]  Not that she truly minded, least of all with the complicated expression on Myron’s face as he stared down at Noel.  [color=f7941d]“Right,”[/color] she answered as Cristina worked, rising again to greet their newest recruits and manifesting a half-smile.  [color=f7941d]“Shame about the circumstances but glad to have you with us, Peony – and Benjamin, good job out there.  We’ll get you both properly onboarded, soon as we can.”[/color]

[color=f7941d]“First thing, though…”[/color] she said, turning as reality peeled back in around them, to see what she expected: the giant space rock that had, in their absence, fallen onto, then [i]through[/i] the half-collapsed building that had as of five minutes ago been their base of operations.  She sighed, summoning Charter to her hand again.  [color=f7941d]“Anyone without an Arm that can do some excavation without putting yourself or anything that might be in there in harm’s way, I’ll portal you to liaise with the hall’s personnel so they can update us, then do a quick sweep myself.  If Feng was acting alone, they’ll call off the evacuation and we can get a new place to stay.  Anyone who [i]does[/i] have one…  Don’t relax yet but once you get word to stand down, well, you know what you’re doing.”[/color]

Callie knelt once more, steadily reaching around to cradle Shen Tu’s limp form.  [color=f7941d]“All goes well, I’ll be back to join you.  Before that – need a volunteer.  Three people here who’ll need a proper antiquarian medical specialist to check them over, after what they’ve been through.”[/color]  She smiled.  [color=f7941d]“Glad to say I know where we can find one.”[/color]