[She wasn't going to answer any more messages, not after those shitheads ruined everthing. Yet the voice call stuns her, and the caller itself more so.

At least there is one friendly face in a sea of traitors. Sort of. They've only just met.]

A-ardbert... [She sounds downright miserable. Stuffy nosed and sniffling, definitely on the tail end of pitching a fit. She snorts humourlessly.] I'm the same way...I thought I'd sound b-better if I wrote things down, but I'm d-destined to be a big joke no m-matter what I do...

[She'd worked So Hard on sounding eloquent, too. Alas.]

I just m-meant what I said. This isn't the first time people have b-been kidnapped and tricked into doing things.