It was a refrain she heard around her unit with common enough regularity that it was almost expected that a few drinks would be the reward after a harrowing mission. Her failed intelligence gathering assignment at Canaan House, which quickly turned into a desperate murder mystery at the hands of an unknown assailant and ended with Judith's own call or aid to her own people being intercepted by the Emperor himself-- an enigma of a man titled as the Undying Prince, about whom there was no recent intelligence on file.
Anyone who survived the disaster at Canaan House deserved more than a drink and perhaps a medal. For the moment, Judith was satisfied enough to simply be alive.]
Scouting, you say? [she asked, intrigued.] Is it common to get this far off the path with just wrong step? I've seen cities. Normally everything has so much signage that it's impossible to ever be truly lost.
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It was a refrain she heard around her unit with common enough regularity that it was almost expected that a few drinks would be the reward after a harrowing mission. Her failed intelligence gathering assignment at Canaan House, which quickly turned into a desperate murder mystery at the hands of an unknown assailant and ended with Judith's own call or aid to her own people being intercepted by the Emperor himself-- an enigma of a man titled as the Undying Prince, about whom there was no recent intelligence on file.
Anyone who survived the disaster at Canaan House deserved more than a drink and perhaps a medal. For the moment, Judith was satisfied enough to simply be alive.]
Scouting, you say? [she asked, intrigued.] Is it common to get this far off the path with just wrong step? I've seen cities. Normally everything has so much signage that it's impossible to ever be truly lost.