Opting to avoid the verbal fireworks show, (you've had quite enough of those today) you immediately turn and head out the door, and the others are right behind. Devora begins before you're even out the door - "Do you realize what kind of position this puts me in? For that matter, did it occur to you how dangerous that was? I know you like to live on the edge, but don't take everyon-"
Yeah... you're pretty confident you made the right choice.
Your first impression of the outside... is that it's pretty drab. All the buildings, including the one you just stepped out of, seem to be made of wood, supported a few feet off the ground by thick wooden columns. There's another long one across the beaten-down dirt road from you, and two more to the left and right. Looking up, you see... at first you think it's just a watchtower, but then you notice the brick column in the middle and the black smoke streaming from the top, and realize it's a watchtower built around a smokestack. Huh. Other than the smoke, though, the sky here is a refreshingly bright blue free of the surrounding grey haze, and you suddenly realize how low the sun is behind you - it's somehow already approaching evening.
"I'm going to go tell Nasira about the robot," you finally decide, stepping off the small porch and out into the road, before a sudden thought hits you. "I have no clue what she even looks like."
"I can help with that," Elaine says, joining you. "I've seen her come through town sometimes; I can point her out for you."
Yelena also joins you, reasoning she might be needed to back up your story. "I've heard she can be tough." Hatice, meanwhile, slouches off, and Lynx follows her after a moment, wishing you luck.
It takes a bit of wandering, but it quickly turns out Devora was right - it's not hard to get the lay of the land. The base is laid out sort of like a hand or paw, with a cluster of various buildings of indeterminate function surrounding the smokestack building on the west end, while five rows of what are obviously barracks stretch eastward, ending in small sheds. A fence wraps around the edges; in some spots the slope is pretty relaxed and it feels unnecessary, while over at the far end the dropoff is much steeper. You see a few people around; mostly girls around your age, but also a couple of grizzled-looking older men, one with an eyepatch, sitting outside the smokestack building.
And finally, after having looped back around to where you started, you spot a young woman exiting the building across from the elevators - "That's her," Elaine confirms in a whisper. Nasira is pretty tall even compared to Victoria, wearing garter-strapped thigh-high boots and a short pencil skirt that accentuate her legs and narrow hips. Up top, she's got a dark red vest over a long-sleeved and wide-collared button-up shirt, though you notice that some sort of scarf or shawl sticks out from under the vest to drape around her upper arms. A content smile plays across her lips, but her bright blue eyes are sharp and eagle-like - or rather, the one visible one, as her short black hair is carefully swept so as to drape over the other. Either way, you're pretty sure she's already spotted the three of you down the road, even if she gives no immediate indication of such.
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) did say we should go to that woman Nasira, better follow her orders and report her about the hostile.
