It wasn't much of a defense at all, come to that, but Lelouch gave his sister a grateful smile anyway, then arched a brow and looked back to Suzaku. "That's right, Suzaku. It never took that long. What, did you just get distracted by something shiny and lose track of time? It wouldn't surprise me."
Further comments would have to wait, though, because Lelouch (and Nunnally's) radios chose then to switch on. The interruption both was and wasn't welcome; Lelouch had been needing to conduct something more in the way of research into those portal rings and the events of last night anyway, but for it to happen now, when things finally seemed to be calming down between the three of them... well, he supposed he should be used to the poor sense of timing of both their captors and those who supposedly opposed them.
He listened closely as the the man on the radio-- Mark?-- spoke, carefully filing away the new information as it came. Again, those rings-- he would need to get his hands on one as quickly as possible, but how to do that when they would likely be in higher demand than ever after this announcement-- he might have the reputation necessary to secure one now, but he just as easily might not. That left...
He was in the middle of exploring this vein of thought when the radios abruptly cut off, and scowling to himself, he took out his and gave it a hard look. The evidence strongly suggested that some outside force had blocked the transmission before Mark could reveal any truly important details, but if this was some game of the institute's... well, there wasn't much they could do now apart from analyze what they had already been given.
Re: F23
Further comments would have to wait, though, because Lelouch (and Nunnally's) radios chose then to switch on. The interruption both was and wasn't welcome; Lelouch had been needing to conduct something more in the way of research into those portal rings and the events of last night anyway, but for it to happen now, when things finally seemed to be calming down between the three of them... well, he supposed he should be used to the poor sense of timing of both their captors and those who supposedly opposed them.
He listened closely as the the man on the radio-- Mark?-- spoke, carefully filing away the new information as it came. Again, those rings-- he would need to get his hands on one as quickly as possible, but how to do that when they would likely be in higher demand than ever after this announcement-- he might have the reputation necessary to secure one now, but he just as easily might not. That left...
He was in the middle of exploring this vein of thought when the radios abruptly cut off, and scowling to himself, he took out his and gave it a hard look. The evidence strongly suggested that some outside force had blocked the transmission before Mark could reveal any truly important details, but if this was some game of the institute's... well, there wasn't much they could do now apart from analyze what they had already been given.