Looking up, shame clearly evident on her face, Rose says, “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t intend that to sound mean, Elysia. I guess I’m more irritated than I thought about not being able to help Al, because of all these silly military rules... it’s just that people often do what their parents did because they think it’s expected of them.”
“As for what I want to do. Well, apart from looking around where you found Lieutenant Miller, I can’t really think of anything else that might help Al, but General Hawkeye doesn’t want us poking around there on our own... so I really don’t know. I suppose you could show me around the city, but that just doesn’t seem very helpful...”