Lyudmila really should have considered making a plan to meet you alone.

"You think I'd crash into your place If I had a choice?" Lyudmila asked tiredly, removing her mask and hood as she sat across from you in your apartment. She wanted to say yes, but her pride held her back.

"There's a new kid working at Nuova Volsinii's Truck Department. He needs a guardian in his life, and you're the only one I can count on here."

The Orphan known as Marco did indeed start working at Nuova Volsinii so Lyudmila wasn't really lying. He was just a Lupo Orphan who watched his family die in Siracusa at a young age, and the orphanage didn't even bother to do anything about it. If Lyudmila was being honest, She had limited options here: She still has bad blood with the Operators of Rhodes Island, And no way in hell was she going to leave Marco with any members of Reunion. The last thing she needs is for Marco to end up just like those fanatical bastards. You were her last call, even if the thought of meeting you again stirred unwanted feelings in her. She lost sleep because of this.

It's been years since Lyudmila last saw you. You looked like a mess, and Lyudmila knew well enough that enough time in Siracusa will eventually change you like the rest: one way or another. Still, She wishes that you were doing better than her. Maybe it will ease the sting of her failed relationship with you. She left you behind, just to follow Talulah's manipulative words and join her movement. Now that she deserted Reunion after the Chernobog-Lungmen Crisis was over, Lyudmila couldn't help but realize that she misses you.

"I'll... owe you a favor if you do." Lyudmila said reluctantly, finally meeting your gaze for the first time in years.

Lyudmila hated owing people favors. She was never the type to ask for help, And she told herself that she definitely wasn't doing this just to see you again after so long. Lyudmila isn't even sure why she's doing all of this for a kid she barely knows, But she will be damned if Marco ended up having a bleak future just like her. It's the least thing that she can do.