Natalia finished reassembling the bolt-action and loading the brass, and while she couldn't put the Imperial standard into handy, fold-up pieces like her old Chuvakin, she had instead modified a particularly large woodwind case lined with improvised methods to maintain low humidity and keep out the ever-present salt.
Now that she's not trying to fool anyone, the Slavic accent fades nearly completely.
"Mm. It has been a very long time since I could talk with someone else about this stuff," she said, along the way. "Even then, it was in... The ballistics of the thing, the mechanical nature of the beast. Not... What it feels like, to tunnel into a spear's point."
"But I don't need to belabor that with you, either." She tilts her head. "Commissary this way, I think."
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Re: II: Vault and Tools
Date: 2024-12-19 07:40 pm (UTC)Now that she's not trying to fool anyone, the Slavic accent fades nearly completely.
"Mm. It has been a very long time since I could talk with someone else about this stuff," she said, along the way. "Even then, it was in... The ballistics of the thing, the mechanical nature of the beast. Not... What it feels like, to tunnel into a spear's point."
"But I don't need to belabor that with you, either." She tilts her head. "Commissary this way, I think."