[ If John was listening, which he was, it didn't show as he turned Ellie around as easily as if she were a coin he spun on a flat surface to search her pack. Standard procedure if he was pulling a graveyard shift on the borders of Insurrectionist territory and came across someone seemingly unarmed and unaffiliated. He digs through her bag and finds enough sloppily hoarded supplies to hint that if she planned on coming back to the compound - it wasn't anytime soon.
He relieves her of any munitions, but returns the bag with food and medical supplies untouched. This wasn't the outer colonies, but she was in no position to be packing. ]
Do you know what's out there?
[ It sounds like the beginnings of a lecture, but it's just as much a question as it is of a condemnation of her stopgap attempts at a one man army. ]
no subject
He relieves her of any munitions, but returns the bag with food and medical supplies untouched. This wasn't the outer colonies, but she was in no position to be packing. ]
Do you know what's out there?
[ It sounds like the beginnings of a lecture, but it's just as much a question as it is of a condemnation of her stopgap attempts at a one man army. ]