"I think it was more desperation than pure calculation," Stacia says. "Five people - seven if you count Delta and Theta, eight if you count the guy willing to vouch for Wash and Carolina - is a lot of people to have set against him. Plus, he was in a situation where the only protection he had against any one of them killing him was that he was considered 'company property'." She grimaces. She really doesn't like talking about the dehumanizing way Jorgmund treated them, even when she's not talking about herself. Yaaay trauma.

"He was looking for someone to have his back, and he didn't have time to get into anyone's head first. So he had to wing it, and he's very bad at winging it." She cracks a smile. "We had a guy there originally from the dawn of humanity; and he likened it to someone announcing that they don't eat people's faces, when no one had in fact accused them of eating people's faces. "Makes you think he's gonna eat some faces"."