"I don't understand how this is a necessary part of anything." Xanthiana was bathing, the stench of the hellbugs was so strong on her she could still smell it and figured she probably would continue to smell it for a few more days at the very least.
"Because apparently you don't have any programming for smell EGO." She had managed to secure some soap for herself and her clothes, the small river she'd found seemed clean enough that she didn't think she'd get some new disease from bathing in it.
"My files reference hellbugs having a foul order when killed, I did not realize it was enough to have to immediately bathe afterward." Xanthiana had washed her clothes first so they could be drying when she bathed herself, it still meant she'd have to spend time naked, but less time in clothes that reek like Hellbug shit was the price she had to pay for the possibility of people seeing her naked.
"Update your files, the smell is beyond horrible, its matched only by what Sensoth's do in the bathroom."
"Updating my files Operator Roeyka." She kind of meant it as a joke, but it made her chuckle a bit to think of EGO having to arrange a list of smells. Xanthiana finished bathing and found a place to lay down in the grass. She was thankful that it was sunny and hot out, a little bit of sunbathing and she'd be dry and hopefully her clothing would be as well. She was never a modest person especially with the living conditions on the ARK ships, but being naked in the new world was never a good feeling. Between the hellbugs, other creatures, and bandits, you could never truely feel safe. Xanthiana despite that did fall asleep, she didn't dream and that was a welcome relief from her normal evening of feeling bad for all the things she had done to get where she was. She had slept for a few hours before EGO's voice woke her up.
"Alright alright you're worse than something I can't think of that's really annoying ego, it was only a few hours I'm sure I didn't get too tanned or anything."
"Operator Roeyka I did not awaken you because of your tanning, though your skin does show signs of excessive sun radiation, but no there is a signal coming from a nearby convoy of vehicles attempting to return to base with medical supplies, they are under an ambush." Xanthiana got dressed, her clothing was a little damp, but the stench from the hell bugs had at least been minimized.
"And you think we can provide that assistance?"
"We are within range, I believe they are only a kilometer away from our current position."
"And our current ammunition count is?"
"Currently we have forty nine rounds of .45, zero rounds of .556 which both the light machine gun and assault rifle we have in our inventory utilize."
"And the estimated numbers from the convoy under the ambush?"
"Currently they estimate numbers of up to five to ten attackers hitting them from both sides with rifles."
"And we have no way of getting to their location aside from running."
"Correct Operator Roeyka, should I tell them we are on our way?"
Xanthiana sighed and gathered her supplies, making sure to leave the empty light machine gun behind, it was going to do her no good, "Yeah tell them I'm on my way, god damn it."
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