"Yeah, but birdshit happens in battle, and like I said, if you really need to blame anyone for this SNAFU, blame the guys who cause the entire thing in the first place," Eva says simply. "They weren't going to let us leave alive no matter what and they had guns-"

Here, her breath hitches and she instinctively hugs herself. "By Arkean standards, they're- they're the absolute worst kind of criminal, never mind the willingness to use them." Her voice is hollow, now. "At least with monsters, you know they're only obeying orders or going via instinct."