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.

[loculus]

Hello, Philip. Welcome to the conversation. We're just as displeased as I'm sure you are.

Some options to consider:

1. Do not go at all.
   
2. If you must go, bring trained personnel from Battlest.
   
3. Meet in a third location that is less obvious, has less Architect interference, and where you are not known to locals.
   
4. Do not go at all.
   
5. If you must go, bring trained personnel from Battlest.
   
6. Send a courier. Preferably someone expendable. (The second sentence is a joke.)
   
7. Do not go at all.
   
8. If you must go, bring trained personnel from Battlest.
   
   
9. Do not go at all.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

No.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Lo siento, I think I read that wrong.

You’re seeing Mamá? Why? Who else is going?

ADNP.

[adrii]

Domingo.

Aldanas

[adrii]

I left some research behind with her that I need.

I'm going alone.

ADNP.

[loculus]

You included me at your own peril. You never had to tell me in the first place, and yet you persist. Thus: so will I.

ADNP.

[adrii]

And I'm regretting that choice every day, trust me.

Taking someone isn't an option.

ADNP.

[philiip]

@ Aldana: why?

Aldanas

[adequacies]

There is literally no need for you to go down there.

You aren’t going alone since you are not going at all. How much of that coffee-flavored swill have you had today that led to this?

ADNP.

[loculus]

Join the support group, they meet Thursdays.

Six options remain.

ADNP.

[adrii]

I have research I want to retrieve.

Aldanas

[adrii]

Mija. I'm going.

ADNP.

[philiip]

We have Espionage and Ground Force and Supplies for that.

adrían.

[loculus]

So you attempted to bestow unto me three secrets in one.

ADNP.

[adrii]

Have you considered not being a thorn in people's sides?

A courier isn't an option. I'm not putting additional people at risk.

ADNP.

[loculus]

Yes, it's why I left Undercover.

You are the risk.

ADNP.

[adrii]

The research is with Alba, Philip.

Adom.

[adrii]

What's the third?

ADNP.

[adrii]

And I am accepting the risk.

ADNP.

[philiip]

We have Espionage. And Ground Force. For retrievals like this.

Adom.

[loculus]

1. That you were leaving.
   
2. The nature of the research.
   
3. The mysterious status of your pending divorce.

Adom.

[adrii]

No one else has asked about the nature of it.

Aldanas

[adequacies]

Papá. You aren’t thinking logically about this.

Anyone can retrieve it from the house. I can get it.

ADNP.

[adrii]

I also need to see if she's signed the divorce paperwork. I'm not having someone else do that.

Aldanas

[adrii]

You were just injured. Absolutely not.