Redsand Canyon fenestra

The soldiers often spent their mornings together under the guise of training drills or patrols, but this was the first time in a while Glaukos was really paying attention to the conversational part of things. He held little to no opinion of Diesel. She had been a warrior among them once, with an abrasive attitude and one of the ugliest, malformed bodies he had ever seen. They weren't friends - and with her desertion, now they weren't even soldiers together.

Kallik voiced his feelings on the subject followed by Maxim, who was short and sweet about it. Glaukos was silent with Towhee but he didn't have to think about his own answer - he didn't see the point in this discussion at all, and had little to contribute until absolutely necessary.

She made her choice. Kallik and I were punished for leaving Mereo once ourselves, and Diesel was punished in her own way by abandoning us for the same reason. It wasn't entirely the same but to Glaukos he saw little difference. They had pushed a stone around for their punishment; Diesel had been assaulted and all the time wasted on her own training had amounted to nothing.

Her existence alone was an insult to Mereo. She is not one of us. Her choices, and the consequences of those choices, should not be placed upon us to bear. Exile her and her ill-gotten spawn.

It was the most he had spoken in weeks.