<blockquote><div><cite>Eferhilda wrote:</cite>Xarn, the word made her grin figuring it was similar to their 'Odd or weird', shrugging a bit she lead the way to the chow line grabbing up a tray and silverware nodding for him to the same. As his eyes raised to her own, the use of the word seemed to suit the situation perfectly and she nodded slowly chest tightening for a moment with the emotion and stress that she often held back just to get through the day. <br/><br/>"We were not always this desperate...." she said after a moment when she looked away from his eyes to begin moving down the line to where the food was being handed out. Getting herself a couple of cheese burgers, fries and then a coke at the end of the line she waited for him to make his selections before she lead them to the table where she and the other pilots usually ate their meals. <br/><br/>Setting her tray down she took her seat waiting for him to sit before she continued, "We were once like your people, plentiful and prosperous but our own greed and lack of caring for our home world caused us to destroy it only barely able to get out of there with a third of our population..." pausing she took a sip of her drink while she gathered her thoughts, "There were some of us who felt it was suppose to be our end, our final time the end of days..." again another pause as she remembered back to those days. The bombings, the assassinations, going under the experiment to make her a more efficient killer and solider helping her to detect those who meant to do them all harm. <br/><br/>"So a war began and we left our planet to settle on a moon base as a temporary basis while ships were sent out to find a new home world..." she sighed. "Most of our forces are guarding the moon base where the majority of our population waits, while only a few pilots being assigned to each ship that got sent out. We have confirmation of the lost of three of the ten that were sent out, the enemy coming at us harder and stronger each time we fight them off. Its like fighting a battle up hill while pushing a boulder" said with a sad shake of her head she closed her eyes for a moment taking a deep breath before opening her gold eyes to look across the table at him with a half smile, "Sorry that your first contact with another species is during a war time and now sitting across from a pilot who seems to be suffering from a bit of emotional baggage...." she chuckled though it was a bitter sound.</div></blockquote>