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[gitanes]

Who: Lila Zacharov
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Friday, May 22

[It would be an understatement to say that Lila isn't happy to be here. No, actually, she's furious. She was in the middle of a job back home, and now - well, she couldn't begin to say whether people will notice her gone. Hell, time might have stopped back home for all she knows. But she can't afford to waste any time. She has to get back now.]

[When she turns on the video, she's wearing a low-slung black and white top that clearly reveals the gnarled, dark scar that slashes across her neck, her second smile. She's showing it off, proving that she's not someone to mess with. That she isn't afraid.]

I need to talk to Atroma. Now.

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[gitanes]

All right.

Tell me about the attack.

[openhands]

From what I understand, it happened quickly. The ships in this fleet were unprepared for such an attack and heavily damaged, but there were no casualties.

[She's not explicitly giving her opinion, but there is an undercurrent of tension in her tone. Cassandra finds it frustrating that the fleet was caught so unawares. It was luck more than anything that saw to it no one died.]

[gitanes]

[She hears this immediately, her expression twisting into a frown.]

There should have been.

[It doesn't make sense.]

[openhands]

"Should" doesn't always end in certainty.

[gitanes]

I just mean it's illogical.

[openhands]

But still what happened.

[gitanes]

Have there been attacks before?

[openhands]

No. Not to my knowledge.

[gitanes]

So you just happened to get lucky the first time?

[openhands]

Is beginner's luck not a concept where you are from?

[gitanes]

It's not a concept I place any faith in.

[openhands]

Nor should you.

[gitanes]

Then why are you talking about it?

[openhands]

Not relying upon luck does not mean that it never factors into events.