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Lena turned to Jhala and smiled slightly at him, bowing her head. "Well thank you for that compliment, Sgt. Yadav. The EU takes great care of our investments..."

She sighed in frustration and rolled her eyes. "As we should considering what few things we've spent it on has bankrupted our countries. With that in mind, we better protect those things with all the available resources that we have."

Lena was trying to piece together and understand what Jarid meant in the first part of what he said. She multi-tasked by responding to Jarid's comment about the Russian fortress and thinking over what she had said to him before.

"The Kronos Fortress is a fortress in Russia. Some believe it to be rumored since so few have seen it or know about it, but it exists. I only know about it because so many political figures in Vienna discuss it. Well, political figures in every country discuss it, actually, excluding Russia, of course. It's very well guarded and secretive, and some myths even surround it that say it can move on its own from place to place, which is why it's never been located. I guess it's possible, considering what our main Zoid can do.. but something that big wouldn't be able to move very fast to a different location, and something that large moving would likely draw attention. So, I think it's a stationary place located in high, hard-to-reach mountains."

Finally, the double meaning to what she had said to Jarid hit her. Her face flamed red, she looked at Jarid with wide eyes and her jaw agape, and she gasped.

"Oh... my... God.. Excuse me, sir, please! What I said before about my oral.... I meant nothing of that nature! Please forgive me. That would be quite rude, crude, and undignified of me."

Jarid could not help but laugh at Lena's reaction before Jhala spoke.
He listened to the redhead speak about the Fortress, and when he was done, he just STARED at him for the explanation as to why he knew so much..

"Interrogated, huh..?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Sounds more like you drank her under the table or something..."

(Cuwen's post. )

"And I seem to remember a certain Red-Head telling me they don't DRINK." Jarid replied, smirking at Jhala.
"'Only for work', I take it..?"

"Oh now that's just CHEAP." Jarid chuckled.
"You got her drunk, yet you stayed sober...Well, it was a Frenchy, so I'm not TOO mad at you." he added with a grin.

((Ahh, well, most around here, either just having nationality of, or are tourists, are the annoyingly arrogant kind who don't seem to care about whether or not their actions harm others.))

Jarid just gave a dark chuckle at Jahla's final statement, giving a sinister smirk.
"Now I have a movie line in my head. 'We're not so DIFFERENT, you and I'.." he told him, still smirking.

Before Jhala could respond to him, Jarid looked back at Lena, giving a nod.
"Yes, you're welcome. Good night, ma'am." he told her with a closed-eyed smile.

Sure, he hated the French. But that was due to the majority of the people. Not the Language, nor the culture.

Lena's eyes widened in surprise as someone stepped in front of her and blocked her path. Before the woman could even speak, the security guards behind Lena quickly stepped up to her sides and watched the woman suspiciously.

Lena frowned slightly in confusion after she heard what the woman had to say. "Excuse me? Well, it's nice to meet you, Captain Mulhollon, but why would we need to go to Russia. I was going to head home, back to Vienna, Austria."

Lena sighed. "My security guards are simply doing their job, which is to protect me. When you walked into my path without warning, they acted as they have been trained to."

Lena turned her head, spoke lowly to Samuel on her left and waited for a moment. Samuel looked at the other guards and, without saying a word, they stepped back a few feet.

Lena looked back at the woman. "So, Captain, would you mind explaining to me now why there is a need to transverse Russia's airspace upon my departure, please, as well as your escort?"