"Not unless she did it without making it clear what she was talking about," Soldat says, shaking their head, leading the way across the gym floor to the door in the other end of the car. The next one is the medical car, and they visibly brace themselves before entering, and walk down the center isle briskly, not looking at the doors to either side into surgery and exam rooms. Even the smell in here is terrible, but they can at least walk through it. They're not that badly off.

"She did call me and the others who looked more like me Valar, though." They have a thought they don't like much, and add, "I hope she didn't mean she saw us as captors."