"No, this is... new. This is a different lab," she says, glad that they're able to get back to what they're here for. Glad that she has an excuse to say that, to make real that this is a different situation and that things are going to go differently this time.

"If you want to send any scouts, go for it, but I have a feeling we're gonna have some more of those shadowy fuckers to deal with in here." She should be keeping her voice down, then, but oh well. "Do you have, like... a bond with them, or something? Where you'll get hurt if they do?" Look. She doesn't get magic.