In the aftermath

[itbelongsinamuseum]

1 [Backdated to just after Crazy Little Things.]

[After the debriefing and cleaning up, Alex can be found returned to the scene of the battle overlooking the destruction of what used to be the museum of fine arts before taking a look up the hill to the royal palace, seeing some scarring from stray shots on it.]

So this is what protecting Flanders is? Give me a break...

2

[Making use of how operations has taken her back to Belgium, Alex took a day off to go back to Antwerp to visit her parents and reassure them that she was still well and catching up. That was yesterday, now she's getting back to the rest of Unity Group and something seems to be weighing on her mind. She's even so deeply in thought that she's watching a random chess championship in one of the break rooms.]

Comments

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Yes, but if they want to pretend to give a shit about Flanders and its heritage, they should actually try to preserve that heritage.

[sixteenthgun]

If that really is their driving force, the outcome of this will have some effect on them.

[He stares at the ruins of the museum.]

Was there even anything left?

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Not sure, but I doubt anything delicate survived, at least.

[sixteenthgun]

...

I don't understand...or remember...the significance of what was in there. But, as long as there is something...it would be better than all of the works being lost.

[And then he shifts his attention back to Alex.]

In the meantime, you should be more concerned about yourself.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Why? I mean, more than other people around here.

[sixteenthgun]

Because they were willing to hold hostages for the talisman you possess, even after failing their assassination attempt.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

I'm pretty sure that was just an extra they threw into the demand to be let out so they could feel they got something out of that fiasco. It'd be insane to focus on somebody part of some weird fusion of a military unit and a superhero team like this.

[sixteenthgun]

Isn't that what happens with some of the others here?

[itbelongsinamuseum]

These are small time nationalist terrorists, not weird cults, aliens and who knows what else people have hunting them.

[sixteenthgun]

...

[It's obvious he's not buying that they're not a threat to you just because of that, Alex; considering that 'insane' is how he'd describe them. But instead of saying it out loud...]

If you say so.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

I know. But there isn't much I can do about it, so there is no reason to go around being afraid.