(Anonymous request).

Things weren't exactly the same, since she came back. Air felt...different, colder. Stiff.

After Ash had awoken from her coma, and got re-adjusted to the world, she realized how she actually needed to address Deimos, rather than sending a couple of recon missions and calling it a day. So, scanning through her list of available operatives, she assigned Grace into deep cover: to infiltrate and assume the identity of a Keres Legion soldier, in order to better understand their motives, methods, and what they overall stood to gain from their activities. And, well, it wasn't pretty. What they didn't expect was the psychological hammering they did inot all of their units. with her taking a rather big blunt of it, there was no surprise when she was just a tad more hostile than when you knew her from before. Maybe a bit more than a tad.

Which led you two to be in the back of an operating vehicle, sitting across from her while she press-checked Mk 14. Noticing your glance, she spoke but didn't meet your eyes,

Dokkaebi: "Eyes front."