Apart

[Ophelia]

Ophelia dragged Kinsey out of her darkened cell and strapped her into a chair. "I really don't care if you can't see... I need your mind not your eyes." she said and gave her another injection into her neck to make the rest of her numb. Guards flanked her and were pointing their weapons at Kinsey's head.

"Let us see what she can do when properly motivated." Dominus said as he walked alongside his daughter. "Now daughter... if she does not perform..."

"She will. Won't you Kinsey?" Ophelia patted her cheek. "Still a lot of people she cares about... but we do have common foes. There is a colony of Brethren that... do not agree with our alliance. You are going to wipe them out as if they never existed. Or... we wipe out Xenex for good this time. Its not enough that the Brethren kill everyone, but we're going to push the planet into its sun."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

Kinsey wet her dry lips as she composed her words. She didn’t care if Ophella assumed it took her eyes long to adjust to changing light. It was an advantage she held over her and she’d hold on to whatever small one she could get.

“I want assurances.” Kinsey finally said.

[Ophelia]

"Such as? You do realize you have like... no rights to anything. You're a project of mine and I can dump your skinny ass out an airlock when I feel like it. But... what do you want then?" Ophelia said and rolled her eyes.

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“I want undoctored proof you didn’t destroy Terra Alpha after I killed Jack.” Kinsey stated leveling her eyes on Ophelia. She needed to silence that seed of doubt that ‘Jack’ had put in her mind. Then she turned her eyes on Dominus. “And I do this Xenex stays out of this for good or you can go ahead and dump me out an airlock because you know what I’ll do if you push me to far.”

[Ophelia]

"Oh very well." Ophelia gestured and brought up a live feed from Terra Alpha's news network.

"Goooooood Morning Terra Alphaaaaa! And THIS is your daily briefing. President Price and First Lady Price... the Presidents Price who we kiddin' eh? Have announced..." Ophelia shut it off and rolled her eyes. "I'm killing that announcer... I can't stand his voice." she muttered. "And yes I suppose we can leave that worthless dust bowl you call a homeworld alone."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

It seemed there was something she and Ophelia agreed on. That announcer was had the most annoying voice she’d ever heard and they always insisted playing his news reports in the office.

“Where are they?” Kinsey inquired in a business like tone.

[Ophelia]

"We're in orbit now." Ophelia said as she looked at her fingernails. "I think given what you did to our troops on Thessia... shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes to wipe them out."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“How do you want me to do it? From orbit or from the ground?” Kinsey inquired with a raised eyebrow. Though she sounded indifferent she’d never tried something like this before from orbit and on a small population. Honestly, she didn’t even know if she could do it.

[Ophelia]

"We have a chamber prepared. It'll be suborbital. You do the job with less than fifteen minutes of life support, you get to live another day. Fail and well... you're dead and it's open season." Ophelia replied. "Being the... heroic type... your way of killing them is swift, if messy. Our's... would make them suffer."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“I’m not doing it like this.” Kinsey said shifting her eyes down at her numbed body. “All or nothing.”