aaldana 002.

[adrii]

DOMINGO, NIKOLA, PHILIP.

I am going to be on the ground starting tomorrow for two or three days. I am currently going alone, which Domingo and Nikola disagree with. I am grudgingly open to suggestions on how to increase my security to ease unnecessary worries without an escort.

EVA.

I'm going down to see Mamá tomorrow and will be gone for a few days.

RONEN - after he's agreed to an escort.

I'll be gone for a few days. You're in charge. Don't make me regret it.

Comments

ADNP.

[philiip]

Suggest that you do.

ADNP.

[adrii]

If I relent — and this is an extremely large if, de Vries — do you really think Doss would allow it? Taking one of her squadron leaders on a personal errand?

ADNP.

[philiip]

Doesn’t have to be me.

ADNP.

[adrii]

Fine. I can ask Lynfield.

[loculus]

ADNP.

[philiip]

Our greenest pilot.

ADNP.

[adrii]

If she's here and she's flying, she's competent.

ADNP.

[philiip]

You are being DELIB Let’s put it to Doss.

ADNP.

[adrii]

Fine.

PHILIP.
What is your problem with this?

Adrip.

[philiip]

Figure it out.

Adrip.

[adrii]

No. I want you to tell me.

Adrip.

[philiip]

I think you should leave ground safety protocols to those of us who know what we’re talking about.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Mi alma [...] Philip. This is not a mission. This is me, going home, to see my ex and retrieve some research I left with her. That is all this is.

Adrip.

[philiip]

All right. Now cast Verin in your role and tell me you’d simply let her do this.

Adrip.

[adrii]

You know I can't, and you know our situations aren't comparable, but I will concede this point.

I know this is dangerous. I know this is risky. I know I can send Eva and have her retrieve what I need, [...] but I owe it to Alba to be be the one to do this.

Adrip.

[philiip]

And I understand why you think y you need to be the one to do this, but you cannot ignore the unique risks this poses for you. This isn’t like touching down for a quiet weekend at Lake Geneva, Adri; you’re going to impersonate being Veiled in attempt to retrieve something they wouldn’t want you to get your hands on if they knew about it. Worse, you think doing this with only your daughter is acceptable as a risk mitigation strategy. You need someone else nearby who isn’t compromised by everything Alba represents, someone who isn’t your daughter, someone who can keep a clear head through all this.

The fact that you couldn’t even bring yourself to tell me until you were forced to by more influential men than me just tells me you know this is all stupidly risky.

Adrip.

[adrii]

I don't want Eva going with me, either. I know this is stupidly risky. And I know I should have told you before, but I knew it was going to be a fight and I do not want to fight with you, Philip. I do not want to go down there knowing you are upset with me.

And they are not more influential. Simply more annoying.

Adrip.

[philiip]

I think we can discuss your omission when you’re back from this.

Adrip.

[adrii]

Would you really go with me?

Adrip.

[philiip]

I think there’s a good number I’d trust to go down there with you, but yes.

Adrip.

[adrii]

I can't imagine it would be a comfortable experience.

Who would you trust?

Adrip.

[philiip]

Which part?

[…] Have you met Ara? Bobby? Eli?

Adrip.

[adrii]

You can't think of anything that might make it uncomfortable?

Bishop is not going to let his sister go on a personal errand. McLeod is also a squadron leader. Finotti will stand out too much.

Adrip.

[philiip]

Everything about this is uncomfortable. What’s your point?

Adrip.

[adrii]

And why is this uncomfortable. Leave aside Alba. If I was planning to go somewhere else, would this still be as much of an issue?