Under the Maltese Skies

[Loyola]

Disppointing, but expected turn of events. Enma was prepared for that. The only thing Outcast is stunned with is how direct and demanding that sounds. She is wasting the timing of reply and looking lost once more. Of course, all cards are in her head, maybe it is the time to send everything to hell and go missing elsewhere for another big period of time and wasting for another Don to call her a traitor and hope that they can hold her back if she decides to return back and tell what is hers.

— I understand that. I cannot blame you for hating me and this place and possibly hating the whole world at this point. As you already figure out I have had contacts with Royalist command and let's put that way... By working here you would not be working against your kind, or well, what's left of it that is. I would not rush with the decision until you fully catch up and get the full picture since I wasn't quite done with the news.

They are supposed to reach the lake soon, Enma is losing her breath again. She is forced to stop and take some time to recover, she's not speaking at that moment.

— You have lived here for three years, Cardamine here is in the very air and by that point spending a long time outside of this planet may be taxing. You don't feel it now, but shall you leave the surface and some time will pass, you will curse everything and this place will seem the sweetest. Why do you think I and some other very rich people keeping living in this hellhole? I guess you will feel the line. Naturally, I will take you elsewhere from this residence since you must be hating it a lot, if you want you can blow it up.

Taking up the communicator and finding Claire's contact, she would then put it back into her pocked in uncertainty.

— With Claire it's that easy, I am a little afraid to contact her because there is the problem of... The Kusari invasion of Gallia, Claire is supposed to be the border of the two in Tau-53. I am really afraid that transmission might be intercepted and both intels are obviously on high alert. Forces of the new Gallic government were rolled and Kusari fleets are advancing deep into Gallic core worlds. Different Gallic forces are at war with 3 houses at the moment and position could not be more disgusting than it is. I understand that you want to rush into the action, but you may miss a lot of opportunities and an ally that loyalists desperately need.

Loyola curiously looked up into the gray cloudy skies as some snowflakes started to fall down. She hoped that it won't turn into any kind of storm.

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