[ South breathes in deeply. Fuck. Okay. This is actually happening. She never thought he’d actually...
She starts talking before she can change her mind. ]
I was Recovery Two, for almost the entire time we were on the run. Command wanted me to track you down and turn you in. Said they’d give me an AI. All that bullshit. [ She rolls her eyes. ] I let them think what they wanted to think. Got info. Kept following you. Played both sides.
[ Puts even more damning context behind her attempts to get him to just give Theta up, and yet she also never actually turned him in. ]
So yeah. I knew the Meta was becoming a Freelancer-killing problem long before that thing was even a blip on our radar. And then...
[ She falters a little. It’s not like her. For a moment, she looks... ashamed, but the expression is masked quickly by a furrowed brow and familiar frustration. ]
no subject
[ South breathes in deeply. Fuck. Okay. This is actually happening. She never thought he’d actually...
She starts talking before she can change her mind. ]
I was Recovery Two, for almost the entire time we were on the run. Command wanted me to track you down and turn you in. Said they’d give me an AI. All that bullshit. [ She rolls her eyes. ] I let them think what they wanted to think. Got info. Kept following you. Played both sides.
[ Puts even more damning context behind her attempts to get him to just give Theta up, and yet she also never actually turned him in. ]
So yeah. I knew the Meta was becoming a Freelancer-killing problem long before that thing was even a blip on our radar. And then...
[ She falters a little. It’s not like her. For a moment, she looks... ashamed, but the expression is masked quickly by a furrowed brow and familiar frustration. ]