Rising Sun Valley that sad earthly scene

If his words were off-putting, she betrayed the notion. The weight of them hit her all the same however. She could keenly feel the emotion that was there, that was boarded up and shut away. But she could not empathize with it; she had no sympathies to be offering him. Whatever it was that had happened, whatever it was that had been done, it had happened and it was done with. It may have been a slightly (if not obviously) sociopathic way of feeling about things. She held no ill will towards Tonravik for leaving her behind, just in the way she did not hold an ill will towards Siku for running her out. Those things were in the past and that was where they would stay. Any notion of feeling slighted was long gone now.

"There's no time like the present." Her words prompted him coolly and on purpose. She would tolerate the idling because they had been on the move for so long, but she was also just as eager to be reaching up and snapping after the helm that Tonravik sought. That he should have been seeking. And if it were neither of these things, then Echelon would find herself squarely in the dark once more. "The night is still young, and it is warm." And truthfully, she could have done with a meal and a lengthier break as well, however contradictory that was to her desire to install themselves.