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[sleepdarts]

( The device is carefully placed before the video starts, letting it show only the piece of paper in question. It's not quite the wanted signs of the past but it'll do the job.

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76. She's calling him out.

The video only stays on for five seconds before it switches off. It's done its job )

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[sleepdarts]

Then you are more informed than most.

[soldiergenes]

Now we're just talking in circles. I assume you got the answer you were looking for.

[sleepdarts]

I did. Asking did not hurt.

[soldiergenes]

Fair enough.

Got a name?

[sleepdarts]

I would think that we all have one.

[soldiergenes]

Something to call you, then. Doesn't have to be your name.

[ He knows that game. ]

[sleepdarts]

Ana will work.

( Is it her name is it not )

[soldiergenes]

[ Based on what Snake's heard? He's relatively certain that it is. It's not that hard to put the pieces together. Angela had told him about a member of Overwatch, Ana Amari, and even that she was here among the crew. Given that she's asking for Jack, that more or less cements it for him. ]

Your reputation precedes you.

[ Now he gets to be the vague one. ]

[sleepdarts]

And what does it say?

( Like she doesn't know )

private.

[soldiergenes]

[ Time to lock this down. Snake isn't in the business of sharing secrets, and it seems like Overwatch (or the remnants of it, anyway) has plenty of them. ]

You were a high-ranked member of Overwatch. Worked alongside Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison.

private.

[sleepdarts]

( Smart man )

Continue.

private.

[soldiergenes]

I know you're older now than you were in the photos I saw, and that you're a skilled sniper. That's about all that Angela told me.

[ Fine, he'll play his hand. As far as he knows, there's no reason for the two of them to have any beef. ]

private.

[sleepdarts]

( Ah, Angela. Knowing the woman means that she would have had to have trusted the man to share such information. Ana's curiosity now falls to why )

Angela told you correctly, but I am not the sniper I once was.

( Bullshit. She never needed the enhancement of her eye to be a good sniper )

private.

[soldiergenes]

Something happened?

[ Snake is aware of Overwatch's fall, an explosion that had been the final nail in the coffin for the organization. He has no idea what Ana's involvement in that mess was, though, and who better to hear it from than the woman herself?

He keeps his question vague. It's easier to get more information out of people that way. ]

private.

[sleepdarts]

I lost my sight.

( Part of it, anyway, but it's enough to say that something happened and explain )

private.

[soldiergenes]

[ Yeah, that would make it pretty hard to do any precision shooting. ]

Permanent?

private.

[sleepdarts]

Yes. It changed things.

private.

[soldiergenes]

[ So she's using voice-to-text software, then? ]

That seems like an understatement.

[ Most people would be bitter and lashing out about something like that happening to them. Apparently she's already come to peace with it. ]

private.

[sleepdarts]

( She's had a few years head start on it )

I have my life. It is more than some have come away with.

private.

[soldiergenes]

Yeah, you don't have to tell me.

[ Anyone who's been in this job for as long as him has seen loss of life on a monumental scale. And been the cause of some of it to boot. ]

private.

[sleepdarts]

( HMM. More soldiers, Angela? )

Perhaps you should tell me. You have my story.

private.

[soldiergenes]

Only a small part of it.

[ There's plenty more that Snake doesn't know about her, and they haven't even met face-to-face. He isn't willing to reveal that much to someone he barely knows, even if she's a friend of a friend. ]

private.

[sleepdarts]

Then I will accept a small part of yours.

private.

[soldiergenes]

I used to be career military. I was part of the Green Berets when I was younger. Now I do more freelance work.

[ Fine, if Ana wants to be that way. Snake's willing to reveal at least this much, if only to put them on equal footing. ]

private.

[sleepdarts]

How long have you been work fighting?