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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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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?

private.

[soldiergenes]

Since I was a teenager. How about you?

private.

[sleepdarts]

Over twenty years. ( That's how old the photo was ) It's a different place now.

private.

[soldiergenes]

[ That's more or less the answer Snake had expected. ]

What is? Earth? Or Overwatch?

private.

[sleepdarts]

Earth. ( And Overwatch, but details ) War tends to change things.

private.

[soldiergenes]

Kind of an understatement.

private.

[sleepdarts]

You did ask.

private.

[soldiergenes]

Fair.

I'm pretty sure I'll be seeing you around eventually.