The Bear's Cave - Sedona Station, Baffin (Formerly Freeport 14, Yukon)

[Blighter]

It took her a moment to register Rhade's question.

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#FF9944]"How am I supposed to be holding up, comrade Colonel."

She didn't even look at Rhade. Wasn't necessary to look him in the eye so he'd understand how wrecked she was mentally.

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#FF9944]"Just die already, whiny broad."

She whispered, repeated what one of the men, the comrades she had fought earlier, Nikolai Peklovic, had said to her. She hadn't gotten the answer for her questions back then. The "why". Why they couldn't have left them alone, why they had come here, why all this had to happen. She didn't have any real answers of her own, just the little sliver of knowledge telling her it all was, or seemed to be, Volkhan's fault.

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#FF9944]"I'm a whiny broad. I'm holding up by drinking myself into a stupor and trying not to think."

One big gulp of Vodka followed as Captain Gidardet joined them at the table and spoke..

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#FF9944]"I'm just trying to forget what happened Captain. I lost track of the reason I'm fighting hours ago."

It made her want to vomit.