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“Why does she never wear an Exosuit?” Mitchell asked Gideon after leaving the SIM.
“Because Blacklight doesn’t need one” He replied, looking at her across the road. She was glaring at Irons who was talking to some other soldiers at the entrance to a different building.
“I thought that we were required to wear one?” In the couple of months he’d been at ATLAS Mitchell had never met her; she kept away from everyone, isolating herself.
Whenever he did see her walking around the base he’d think to himself, she is pretty… her hair looks good tied up, with her fringe and some of the shorter bits around her face; I wonder if she dyes it white then? She’s much taller up close, even taller than Gideon is by the looks of it, maybe around the same height as Will... Why doesn’t she want to be around any of us? Why is she never happy here? I think it’s great…
Blacklight looked up, hearing her name she materialised next to them, making Gideon and Mitchell jump. “What is it now?” She sighed.
“He just wondered why you don’t have an Exosuit” Gideon said calmly “and I’m never going to get used to you doing that” he told her with a small smile.
She looked to him and spoke sharply “It would be a waste of money to give me an Exo; they are unnecessary commodities for weaklings like you”. She then turned to Gideon and teased “Just because you can’t do it”.
Mitchell just stared at her, why isn’t she wearing shoes?
“What’s with the watching?” She snapped her fingers in front of his eyes, whilst frowning.
“Blacklight, this is Jack Mitchell. He’s new, so don’t scare him too much” He thought Gideon was joking, though his eyes were serious.
“He doesn’t look like I had expected… I take it he doesn’t know what I am?” Her eyes flickered with interest though she stayed frowning at him.
“No, I’ll tell him later…” Gideon mumbled.
“You’re just like everyone else, aren’t you?” Mitchell said quietly, what she is? I don’t get it....
Blacklight continued looking at him for a little longer, before shaking her head and walked to a different building.
“What did I say?” he looked at Gideon who in turn looked a little worried.
“She isn’t like us mate, they don’t even class her as a person here” Gideon pulled him in the opposite direction.
“Why not?” What the fuck is going on here?