To betray your people

[Lucas]

Lucas sat down, looking at the General for a while. It has been two months since they had last talked, and a lot has happened since then. But now here he was, not even 5 meters away from him, being asked to give all information that he had gathered, which made it sound as if the General was suspicious of him. The General was smoking a cigar, as usual, he had been doing that since the two have met. Lucas was not a fan of cigarres, cigarrets and the likes, but in his time with Lanzo he got used to it.

Still smoking, aren't we? He looked up to the General, who was still standing, and grinned. He was happy that he was finally home, and tried to make the situation that the two of them found themselves in less tense. Lanzo was a tall man, and one would think that he has a pretty dominant presence when he stands like that, a dead serious look, a cigarre, looking at you. And that was usually the case, but not this time. The relief that came from Lucas finally getting back was so great that he did not care at all about how the General looked at him.

Well, I am not sure if I got what you are looking for. The Estancimento was damaged during our Exodus apparently, and on the last patrol that I was sent to I experienced severe malfunctions, Amigo. Don't blame me on this one, blame the engineers! Anyways, I had been found by some Hogosha Pilots within the Sigma-17 System and told them what happened, so I was brought back to one of their bases. As you can imagine, they are not too experienced with Hispanic Tech, so it was rather difficult for them and for me to fix the ship. While I was on the base, I had to work to pay for my expenses. Not an experience I'd want to make again, but I suppose it definetly helped to see things with different eyes. He grinned at the General. After a few seconds, he stood up and walked up to the General, which resulted in him poking the General. He walked towards a wall, and leaned on it, seemingly exhausted from the flight to the new Apostatas Base.

Say, General, what has happened within Apostatas ever since I got lost? Where are our supportive Cretans, and what happened to everyone else? I know that they are not all on this base, that would just be insane. He asked, still leaning at the wall, looking at the General, with crossed arms. Thoughts and worries about their supporters came up in his mind, how would they be treated if the Apostatas themselves alredy got banned from the Empire?

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