Walter just sighs and shakes his head, knowing he wouldn't be able to change anything in the conversation if he continued to even try. He glances over at Coma's stretcher one last time before heading to another catwalk to get some air and cool off, whether that be the damaged catwalk or another intact one. He sits down on the edge with a post between his legs and slumps down onto the railing as he rethinks the previous events.
Walking outside of the ship you are greeted by the
distant wail of Imperial air raid sirens and very little else, the city itself being eerily quiet. Xiaomei and Yamashiro are standing around with a pair of binoculars, looking at the city below, and Eremit is off by himself practically leaning over the railing to look straight down. The two Kintharians are talking about something or another, but the conversation in their native language is lost on you.
: [Alright, look around where I'm pointing for the skyscraper with no windows, then down to street level on the left. It's got its lights on.]
: ["Building with no windows", I've seen at least three of those already.]
: [This one's got four big vents near the top and a helipad on the roof.]
: [Okay, okay... alright yeah, I see it. Holy
stuff that thing looks mean.]
: [Yep.]
: [I bet Kaede could still run circles around it in the Dauntless.]
: [Unlikely. I'm pretty sure the new interceptors are all-electric, it'd run your car down before you made it one block.]
: [Yeah, like the guy who's gonna be behind that wheel has ever found himself in a real chase before. Just gotta get to the highway so those 650 horses of
rippling Mercanan muscle can flex, and that oversized RC toy is gonna be eating fumes.]
Walter's concentration on his own thoughts is soon broken by Eremit speaking up in a language he can actually understand.
: Hey, uh... do you think it's necessarily unfair for some of the blame for what's happening right now to be placed on me?
"It will. Every storm has an eye. Some just take longer to get here than others."
: Yeah, but like, once you're in the
eye you're just surrounded on all sides by more storm.