Map of the Iron Province

TRANSCRIPT

After about a week, things pretty quickly took a turn. As we were getting ourselves cleaned up for the day, Emilie and I were chatting once again. It was when I noticed that we were the only two people in the change room, that Emilie gave a smile. A crooked, deranged smile that was all too familiar.

In a flash of green light, Emilie's half-naked unblemished body started warping into one deeply scarred. It was X0-C3, she was here, presumably at the time after the artifact. I was paralyzed in fear, but she assured me that I wasn't her target.

She walked over to my comms device, popped the casing of it open with ease, and pulled out a small device and tossed it to me. She explained it was the tracker. It has its own battery, so it can operate independently, but this allows for me to use the comms without my location being tracked. I would still need to keep the tracker on me in the meantime, as to not to raise suspicion with Eltyr or STEEL. She called this a 'gift of goodwill'. But, I knew even then that this 'gift' was to serve her own benefit in time.

Still, she told me that the reason I was sent here, was because this object is of great anomalous power, and is the reason my facility was built here in the first place. For X0-C3 such an important and powerful object was to never fall back into the hands of STEEL, and Eltyr was too much of an unknown to trust. This, I did believe her on. But I was not keen on her getting it either.

Still, after she finished her explanation, she pulled me in for an embrace which I did not reciprocate. She reiterated that she wasn't my enemy, that she did genuinely enjoy the moments we shared and doesn't want to harm me. She knows my mission, and hers doesn't impact mine.

She also warned me against telling anyone in Eltyr or STEEL as it would get me killed.

"Call it a hunch" she said.

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