"You look quite confused," came an offered greeting from not too far away. He was sitting there with his own paperwork and a tall hot chocolate, and yet he appeared as rushed as a snail. "I take it you've never been here before?"
"That's a bit harder to explain," Kitt said, and stood to offer his hand. "I'm Kitt Knight, and I think I can explain most of it - if I can get some background information from you."
"Lt. Gara Petothel, Imperial Intelligence." Gara says, her voice quite strong with an Imperial accent, as she looks him over. She tucks a piece of short, dark hair back. A habit she's never lost.
Ysanne Isard is not a woman often surprised by anything.
Still, when the door opens and she glances up absently from her table, her gaze freezes on the young woman standing there. She stares a half-second, uncharacteristically unguarded, and then she schools her expression and clears her throat.
Isard has not seen her, either, not since the day they spoke in an empty classroom, Gara a rising star in the world of Imperial Intelligence. She has followed her career, though, just as she had said. Society girl Kirney Slane to Ensign Gara Petothel to Lieutenant Gara Petothel, to Flight Officer Lara Notsil of Wraith Squadron.
To a dead young woman.
Ysanne rises from her seat. "At ease, Lieutenant," she says, and the words come easily, the cold indifference just as naturally.
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Still, when the door opens and she glances up absently from her table, her gaze freezes on the young woman standing there. She stares a half-second, uncharacteristically unguarded, and then she schools her expression and clears her throat.
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And there she is, standing in the middle of this strange place. And it's natural, the snapping to attention and the soft, "Madame Director."
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To a dead young woman.
Ysanne rises from her seat. "At ease, Lieutenant," she says, and the words come easily, the cold indifference just as naturally.
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Isard's still alive in her time, for a few more months at least, and even in death, she surely would be able to strike fear into Gara's heart.
She murdered her father.
But she answers, as she should, "Yes ma'am."
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