Jillian looked over at Catrina's cockpit with concern when she saw her fellow female pilot being dragged out, looking as though she had just been locked in a sauna for going on a week. After feeling a small shudder run down her back, she simply shook her head and turned her attention towards an understandably petrified Lucille. Jillian hugged the small girl gently, giving her back a small rub as she spoke in a soothing voice. "She will be just fine, she just needs a bit of time to rest."<br/><br/>At least, Jillian sure hoped that was the case, Catrina was just about the only person around here who kept the redhead sane these days... Well, that and Lucille, technically.<br/><br/>.............................................<br/><br/>Isabel remained completely silent until William came in and took his seat, speaking about how she had something to tell the two of them. She had been preparing herself mentally for this moment since the beginning of the trip back to base, but that didn't mean that she was ready for it by any means yet. Still, after a few seconds she took in a small breath and spoke, her eyes never leaving their lowered position as she stared gently at the table while she spoke. She figured that she was just about at the end of the line even if she didn't tell them everything that there was to tell, so there was no harm in giving them the whole story. "... I was born and raised in Madred..."<br/><br/>Madred was a colony that was renowned through the Federation and Zeon forces for it's incredible political instability, as even before the war between Zeon and the Federation began, Madred was always a home to civil wars, rebellions, and uprisings, conflicts that were only made worse the moment that conflict broke out between the big 2. Madred became a dead zone for both sides, a place that soldiers typically went to die. The people of Madred were renowned for fighting to the death against both sides while taking no stake from either, enlisting even children to fight for their cause of independence from the two warring sides. However, due to an incredible power play by Zeon that wiped out the local militia and the Federation forces stationed at Madred, it eventually fell under Zeon control.<br/><br/>The fact that Isabel was from Madred alone likely pointed to the fact that she had been around conflict for just about as long as she had been alive.<br/>"During the battles, the Federation was making a powerful push, we were going to lose our home. Nobody wanted to give up though, and nobody wanted to take aid from the other people that were fighting the Federation too... Zeon. I went to a Zeon captain there..."<br/><br/>That Zeon captain was a man that Isabel would never forget. He had the eyes of a pure heartless killer, the kind of person who would laugh at conflict, and reveled in the death of others. Looking at him, talking to him, caused even the war stained and desensitized Isabel to feel a sense of dread and foreboding.<br/>"I told him where he could find a critical weak point in the Federation advance, but he ended up using that information to find our base of operations as well... When I returned to base a few days later, everything was destroyed, burning. I ran after that... I ran away from Madred, Zeon... Everything. After that, I enlisted with the Federation."<br/><br/>That likely meant that the only real reason that she had enlisted into the Federation to begin with was all a revenge game, though she didn't say that aloud, and there was no telling if she still felt that way.<br/>