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hadriel2017-05-06 02:21 pm
mismanagement) wrote in hadriel2017-05-06 02:21 pm
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[video]
[Maketh's face is all business. If her authority has been questioned, then obviously the solution is to prove that she is doing everything possible to make the Guard as strong and efficient as it can be. She holds up a large rifle to the screen. Some of you might recognize it as Lilith's sniper rifle. Others might simply note that it's the gun that Maketh tends to tote around everywhere.]
I am looking for someone with training in long-range weaponry who would be willing to assist me in mastering this weapon. I never had official sniper training in my world. I would like this error to be corrected.
I am looking for someone with training in long-range weaponry who would be willing to assist me in mastering this weapon. I never had official sniper training in my world. I would like this error to be corrected.
[Video]
[Which is the truth; he didn't go through the usual method of being hired, due both to the position he was filling and being too young to be hired as an agent. Later on, when he did become an agent, it was a much more informal process than would normally happen.]
[Video]
[They simply--what? Sent him to classes? Maketh tries to understand it. The FBI isn't a military organization in the strictest sense. They enforce laws. They track down criminals. They don't engage in military operations. But they still enact control, enforce the rule of law.
So why--?
Maketh shivers. Stands up straighter.]
I do not understand your world at all.
[Video]
[He's not really getting anything new out of this, which is not helpful.]
[Video]
[It's going places she doesn't want to.]
Do you have information I can use or not?
[Video]
I'll still need a list of those who were present so I know who to speak with.
[Video]
[It comes out a little too fast. Maketh wants to end the conversation suddenly, desperately. She's feeling--manic, suddenly, trapped in her skin. This isn't right. There's something wrong, a threat she hasn't anticipated, there's something wrong with her and if she's not careful, he'll see. He already knows.]
[Video]
But that's an issue for later, because he hears the sudden change in how she's speaking; these are the types of things it's his job to notice, but they're also ones he would've been able to pick up naturally. Now he just has to decide what to do about it.
It doesn't take more than a second or so; as usually with him, compassion wins out.]
Are you alright?
[It's a genuine question, his voice quiet, watching her reaction carefully to get a better hint of what's going on.]
[Video]
[Focus, focus, don't let your hands shake. Maketh forces herself to smile. Everything is fine. She wants to bang her head against the wall until her head stops spinning, thoughts coming too fast to process, but that isn't done. Not with witnesses.]
[Video]
Listen. Put the phone down and take a slow, deep breath for five seconds, then let it out for five. Repeat until you've done the set five times.
[Fives are easy to keep track of, and normally he'd add to continue until the patient feels calmer but somehow he thinks that instruction might be a bit lost on Maketh.]
[Video]
Instead, the video shows the phone sailing through the air and then promptly fizzing out after hitting the wall.]
[not here]
But there isn't much he can do about it right now, so he'll just leave things at that for the moment.]