[The connection with the light and the emotion certainly isn't hard to figure out. So he enjoys freedom and escape, even more so than comrades. Alice considers those facts a moment and then turns her mind to the word 'escape'.]

I think we all look for escape in our own way. I certainly have through my work. And it's taken me some time to realize that's not a bad thing.

[She is the way she is, the Corporal is the way he is and there's nothing wrong with any of it. The noble she is and the Second Lieutenant are both valid parts of her. So in some ways even if she escapes one role or the other, she appreciates those moments of escape.

Her orb lights up gently, though steadily.]