<div class="floatright">(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee80/KaiStormwind/Celebs/Amber%20Heard/Amber-Heard-Looking-Hot-In-Malibu-Magazine---July-2013-01_zps9f2e9830.jpg)</div><strong>Angeline Helling</strong><br/><strong>Santa Prisca Desert, Librios<br/>Deneb Algedi, Benjamin District<br/>Draconis Combine<br/>1 January 3145<br/>Tagged: Damian, Hiro, Kari, Moshe</strong><br/><br/>Angeline watched the Firestarter fall to the ground, feeling…well, she wasn’t sure what she was feeling. Perhaps a little thankful, to Damian for coming in to deal with the Firestarter. A little conflicted that Damian was the one who intervened to help her. A little hurt at Hiro’s barbed words, but accepting that she had much to learn about working in a Lance and in a mercenary company from everyone else. Sure, she had graduated from a prestigious military Mechwarrior academy, and with honors too. But she wasn’t really into military history and Mechwarrior Lance tactics, preferring to focus on picking up piloting and gunnery skills. Anything to do with books and theory, well, Angeline had kept it a closely guarded secret but she may have given blowjobs to or slept with a couple of the instructors to get the high grades she had in those classes. Maybe. Her parents would have gone ballistic if they had heard about anything of the sort. Better that they didn’t. She didn’t want to hurt them, after all. But speaking of sex…she hadn’t had any since joining the Black Sun mercenaries. Not yet anyway. She really needed to get to know them better, in more ways than one.<br/><br/>“Thanks.” That was all Angeline sent to Charybdis in acknowledgement of Damian coming in to support her. Be brief, right? And she didn’t really like to speak with him, but he did help her out. As for Ronin, he didn’t get much more from her either. “Acknowledged and understood. Apologies. Seraph out.” Angeline brightened up a little when Kari praised her for the good work in taking on the Banshee, though that was tempered by her mentioning the chatter again. She would have to work on speaking like a soldier. She had managed to do it back in the academy on New Olympia, she could re-learn it again. Being an arena gladiator (and a famous celebrity one to boot) was vastly different, and Angeline hadn’t quite settled in to working as part of a Lance or any of the military practices that the mercenaries carried over from their past. She fought by herself, and battle chatter was normally all about taunting her rivals…or seducing them. “Seraph acknowledges.” Angeline replied cheerfully to her commander, keeping her spirits up as best as she could. All of her communications were now on private channels to their recipients too, to prevent a repeat of the earlier communications blunder.<br/><br/>With Charybdis taking the lead, and Damian being more experienced than she was, Angeline turned her attention away from the Banshee and the smoking wreck that was the Firestarter. Following the clanner’s lead, Angeline opened fire with her LRMs upon the Blade and the Exhumer. Didn’t manage to actually hit the Blade, and the Exhumer might have taken a couple of hits, but nothing it couldn’t shrug off. Moshe’s sudden appearance, destruction of the Blade and then question to her and Damian took her attention away from the Exhumer for a bit. “Recon Lance is harassing the Calliope, and doing well. I’m sending you their coordinates.” Angeline replied to Moshe on the tightbeam. With Kari ordering them to let the Crushers off the hook though, Angeline didn’t see the need for Moshe to wander in blind and deaf. That was dangerous. Kari and Allia confirmed the presence of reinforcements from the Combine for the Crushers, though they were really a little too late to help them out much. The tanks were not a large threat by themselves, and they certainly weren’t going to turn the tide for the battered Crushers, who had lost about half or more of their number. So unless the tanks were only trying to support and escort the Crushers in their retreat…it was pretty much suicide. Angeline locked in on one of the Bulldogs and waited for further orders. With no orders to blow them to pieces yet, she was going to hold off and wait. They were winning, after all.<br/>