[Ravus' mismatched gaze searches her expression as she talks, his expression remaining carefully neutral. He knows of Nyx Ulric from her already and needs no further explanation, but Aranea--]
Commodore Aranea Highwind? [Of course she would have defected, with the Empire collapsing at the seams and their reliance on daemons intensifying by the day. But Lunafreya does not need to know of that future, a future as dark as she had feared in her final hours. So he offers a more neutral response, one more befitting the High Commander she remembered. What he had seen in Gralea was better left unsaid.]
Such is the price to pay for the empire's reliance on mercenaries, I suppose.
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Commodore Aranea Highwind? [Of course she would have defected, with the Empire collapsing at the seams and their reliance on daemons intensifying by the day. But Lunafreya does not need to know of that future, a future as dark as she had feared in her final hours. So he offers a more neutral response, one more befitting the High Commander she remembered. What he had seen in Gralea was better left unsaid.]
Such is the price to pay for the empire's reliance on mercenaries, I suppose.