"We were headed outside, I know that. Let's hope we get a little further, shall we?" The hallway was quiet, and there were no sounds of fighting coming from either side; that seemed promising.
She wanted to ask Gumshoe if he'd heard about Faraday, and at the same time she didn't want to talk about it at all. He should know, and if he didn't, it was her responsibility to tell him, but she also preferred not to think about it any more than she had to. Attacking children, my God. He'd be devastated to know what he'd done. And if he came back, she'd have to tell him, too. Damn. Even if she'd never been his boss, it was still her office.
She was hanging onto her professionalism like a lifeline, and she knew it; what did the politics of one little district matter when they weren't even necessarily on Earth, and the dead were (or had been) alive. But it was all she had.
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"We were headed outside, I know that. Let's hope we get a little further, shall we?" The hallway was quiet, and there were no sounds of fighting coming from either side; that seemed promising.
She wanted to ask Gumshoe if he'd heard about Faraday, and at the same time she didn't want to talk about it at all. He should know, and if he didn't, it was her responsibility to tell him, but she also preferred not to think about it any more than she had to. Attacking children, my God. He'd be devastated to know what he'd done. And if he came back, she'd have to tell him, too. Damn. Even if she'd never been his boss, it was still her office.
She was hanging onto her professionalism like a lifeline, and she knew it; what did the politics of one little district matter when they weren't even necessarily on Earth, and the dead were (or had been) alive. But it was all she had.