She snorts a little when he says that, keying the door open and letting him through. "I wouldn't be surprised," she remarks, following him in. "I'm just going to get this over with," she adds. "I'm not good at waiting on surprises."
After he puts the box down she approaches it, setting her cane alongside the box on the mattress, and using the bed as leverage to lean on. She sets her hands on the top of the box, pauses a moment, then opens the flaps.
The item right on top is recognizable to her immediately—she saw it in the files about Allison when she was retrieving Connie's evidence. It's Allison's hat, with her unit insignia on it. Her hand goes to cover her mouth momentarily before she reaches in and takes it, holding it with one hand and thumbing at the stars in the insignia with the other. She doesn't really need to keep looking at it, though, and she determines right away she's not liable to ever wear it—she'll just put it in her bottom dresser drawer with the baby doll. Things of Allison's aren't hers and she wishes the Ingress would stop pulling in reminders of that.
She flattens her mouth in a line and sets the hat down next to the box, then reaches in again. This time it's a sturdy, thick hoodie that appears to be about her size with the UNSC logo on it. She holds it up to herself and then drapes it over her arm. This she'll wear. She reaches in again—the next item is a pair of black BDU pants, apparently to match with the hoodie. "See, this is the kind of shit the Ingress needs to pull in," she says. "Useful stuff." Reminders of home that aren't reminders of bad things.
Speaking of which—she looks back in the box and scoffs, shaking her head. "Not a bomb," she says. "Just two dud grenades." They're clearly duds because the pins have already been pulled.
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After he puts the box down she approaches it, setting her cane alongside the box on the mattress, and using the bed as leverage to lean on. She sets her hands on the top of the box, pauses a moment, then opens the flaps.
The item right on top is recognizable to her immediately—she saw it in the files about Allison when she was retrieving Connie's evidence. It's Allison's hat, with her unit insignia on it. Her hand goes to cover her mouth momentarily before she reaches in and takes it, holding it with one hand and thumbing at the stars in the insignia with the other. She doesn't really need to keep looking at it, though, and she determines right away she's not liable to ever wear it—she'll just put it in her bottom dresser drawer with the baby doll. Things of Allison's aren't hers and she wishes the Ingress would stop pulling in reminders of that.
She flattens her mouth in a line and sets the hat down next to the box, then reaches in again. This time it's a sturdy, thick hoodie that appears to be about her size with the UNSC logo on it. She holds it up to herself and then drapes it over her arm. This she'll wear. She reaches in again—the next item is a pair of black BDU pants, apparently to match with the hoodie. "See, this is the kind of shit the Ingress needs to pull in," she says. "Useful stuff." Reminders of home that aren't reminders of bad things.
Speaking of which—she looks back in the box and scoffs, shaking her head. "Not a bomb," she says. "Just two dud grenades." They're clearly duds because the pins have already been pulled.