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Tambrey nodded, giving a quick grateful flickered smile.
She was glad to hear that those two were receiving proper care, but she'd probably keep worrying anyway. Maybe she'd bring Palu and Pygi to see Panther and Swiftwing when she could. That would be nice, surely.
"Thank you," She told Arcadie then offered. "It was..." Wait, what could she say and what couldn't she? Er, settle on a descriptive word... Ah, there wasn't really a good one. Abort the sentence. It could be a fill in the blank sentence.
There just wasn't an appropriate way to describe what they'd just come back from.
There was nothing that Tambrey wanted or needed at that moment, and she suspected the question wasn't so much meant for her as it was for the man who had just collapsed to the chair anyway.
She chose to let him be, when she was suddenly aware of a friendly presence around her legs.
"Hello, you." She greeted with a warm smile to the familiar water type. She never had quite managed to thank Aki properly.
Crouching was going to be painful, but she did want to greet the pokemon properly, so with a wince and a sharp intake of breath, she shifted her position to reach down to pet him gently. "Thank you, by the way."

Claire's brows rose as Hayes walked up before the trainee could even answer their questions, and she was relieved to see he was alright too. If he was up and walking around, that meant he was fine. And, thank Arceus, Aulus was too. The agent let out a long, slow breath, disregarding a little more aggressively than she'd intended the desire to go in and see him. No, he was fine, she could go in a few minutes. Right? Right. Let him wake up a bit more. ...though, she couldn't help but worry and wonder how he'd gotten hurt and just how badly, if he was just waking up...

And then Alba burst in looking all kinds of worried and concerned. Claire turned to him in surprise, lips parting slightly before she stepped over to him. "Alba, are you alright?" She knew he didn't go on the mission, but--ohh, did he know someone that went? That must be it. Too bad she didn't know exactly who he was concerned about, otherwise she could tell him immediately. "Who're you worried about?"

No one seemed to want anything, and no one seemed to have anything to offer about the circumstances that had invoked all these injuries. She was ready to shrug it off and return to the back rooms when the door was suddenly pushed open. The trainee regarded the new arrival with raised eyebrows and pursed lips.

"Nasty things, rumors," she commented offhandedly as she turned back to The List once more. She hummed briefly. "Nnnnnnnnope, he's not on this paper, so 90% safe to say he's all clear." She offered an enthusiastic thumbs-up and a broad smile as if Alba had just won some sort of contest, "Congrats!"

Aki cooed at Tambrey at the affection and thanks. Though he regarded her a little worriedly as she seemed to be in pain. "Por?" He gave her hand a lick, then remained staring at her with his blue eyes. Was she hurt? She should sit, right? Aki was good at protecting humans! So he should protect her from... uh... herself. And more hurting. "Vapor por."

Mau looked up at Arcadie when she asked if anyone wanted anything. He shook his head, but really couldn't get words out. Not until a man burst in and looked rather frantic. Inigo? Huh, wasn't that the guy... He was sure that was his name.

"Inigo didn't get hurt." He affirmed after what Arcadie said. "Or if he did, it wasn't anything serious. He helped bring the wounded back."

Claire nodded, relaxing a bit as he seemed to calm down. She'd been similarly relieved when she's heard how Aulus was. "Good," she said with another nod. The hand over hers elicited a brief, mildly confused look from the agent before she offered him a small, sad smile. "I wasn't.. close to her, but I did like her. She was a good agent," she finished with a sigh. It was still very sad and upsetting, especially since it essentially was Galactic that killed her. Her brow furrowed again briefly before her expression cleared again. "Aulus is fine," she said, "supposedly should be waking up soon if you want to see him." The true meaning of Alba's question completely escaped her.

She nodded with a sad smile at him, uttering a "thank you" before he spoke of finding this Inigo - obviously someone he cared a great deal for, if he was so worried about him and even called him 'kid'. It was cute. The sudden hug caught her by surprise though, as evidenced by the way her eyebrows arched before she smiled and returned the gesture with her own one-armed hug. "Alright, Later," she said with a nod before he left. Well, that was.. unexpected, for one thing. The way he had rushed in and then rushed back out was similarly unexpected, but regardless she liked to see Alba. She liked him, he reminded her of Lucas a bit, except... Not quite.

(Aki/Mau)
Aw.
It was time like this that would mix with the events she'd witnessed and haunt her later on, make her question why exactly she was where she was... Team Rocket, where pokemon were tools and the only way out...
Well.
She just wasn't all that good at thinking of pokemon as 'tools', it seemed; they were too fascinating and most, in different ways, were a sheer pleasure to be around. Aki certainly was.
She smiled at the lick, though she wasn't entirely certain what the Vaporeon wanted her to do, so she went to give him another bit of petting, shifting slightly to ease her aching and the discomfort running through her side.
"You are a friendly one, aren't you? Is he yours?" The latter part was asked of the man who was sitting, after he'd spoken to someone who seemed rather nervous. Ah. Inigo.
She needed to thank him as well. It was reassuring to hear about people who were okay, even when she already knew that they were.
(Frost)
And there was Frost.
Oh. This meant she should stand.
She gave Aki another stroke before wincing as she brought herself back up.
"Erm.. Hi, thanks, Frost." Was she supposed to be calling him 'Agent Frost' at the moment? Promotions. Well, at least she knew what he'd appreciate; direct, clear answers. "Technically... Yes, the mission objectives were achieved. I'd... assume y've seen the thing we came back in? As for... a success; we lost someone." A death.
The loss of Aila meant she really couldn't feel good about calling it a success in any other form... But it seemed sensible to state for Frost that it had, technically, been mission accomplished. Likely he'd already come across talk of the death. She wasn't sure what that would mean to him.