Didi's expecting to be shot or beaten or something equally nasty when she reaches the surface. But when she's led rather humanely and kindly toward Elian's office, she grows even more concerned. If he's going to kill her off he should just do it and stop being such a jacktwaddle. The gunslinger strides at her side, her mountain of comfort and strength once again, so Didi has that at least.
She'll take one of him over a galaxy of cyborgs any day.
Perhaps she should be surprised to find Elian's not alone, or that the two people returned to talk to him wouldn't give up easily. Murta and Jackus watch with narrowed eyes as Didi enters, only realizing when she stops and waits to see what will happen next that one of the cyborgs who guard her carries Alfred in his arms. The young man sets the o
