It could have... But I don't get the feeling they wanted to leave.
[ He leaves Krile to her poking and prodding. Cain's not against that, though usually he prefers to have a bit more idea of what he's doing before pressing random buttons. But for the moment, it doesn't seem to be doing any harm; he's trusting that the Natha have built a system that she can't set any sort of self destruct off by accident. He hopes.
Right now, he's more interested in thinking the situation through. ]
After all, they promised us they'd be here watching. You can hear it in the recording, Darma said she'd be here to monitor the situation. That's not the kind of thing you say if you're planning to take off. You'd usually leave a reassuring message about automatic fail safes or monitoring systems, right?
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[ He leaves Krile to her poking and prodding. Cain's not against that, though usually he prefers to have a bit more idea of what he's doing before pressing random buttons. But for the moment, it doesn't seem to be doing any harm; he's trusting that the Natha have built a system that she can't set any sort of self destruct off by accident. He hopes.
Right now, he's more interested in thinking the situation through. ]
After all, they promised us they'd be here watching. You can hear it in the recording, Darma said she'd be here to monitor the situation. That's not the kind of thing you say if you're planning to take off. You'd usually leave a reassuring message about automatic fail safes or monitoring systems, right?