[ She sees the set, faraway look on Marco's face. She's seen it in the mirror, the times she catches herself staring into somewhere and some time that feels years ago and like yesterday at once.

She finishes cleaning up the mess and strips the gloves off, dropping them into the sink to be cleaned themselves. ]

Circinius IV. Corbulo Academy of Military Science. We were training to fight Insurrectionists, not... Whatever the things that attacked us were.