Right.....Wrong.....I don't know

Leaders squabbel

Elma was leaning against the back of the couch she was sitting on. If one could read her thoughts then one overbearing thought came clear to notice since it was practically screaming. She wanted to get out of there and she wanted it fast.

She was not in danger, relatively speaking, but she was in a situation that she didn’t exactly desire. She was at least glad that she knew the people sitting around her weren’t exactly the happiest about it either. The only exception to the general coldness in the room was evident in Tashkent who held a devilish smile on her face as she looked at the Enforcer with satisfaction at her current situation. It also came to the fact that the person it was directed at was the only one in the room to take note of it at all. All others had their attention somewhere else.

“So do I get this clearly. No one has heard anything from our base in the last few months?” Soyuz asked as she crossed her legs under the table. She didn’t raise her voice but the confusion in it was clearly noticeable. “That sounds highly unlikely.”

Hood sat opposite of her in the commander's chair while the rest of the Northern Parliament had, reluctantly, taken a seat on the only couch in the room. This of course meant that the couch was tightly packed, girls sitting leg and hips touching, and while normally that wouldn’t pose a single misthought in the Parliament girls who are comrades to each other's blood, the inclusion of a Siren into that equation was not something they seemed to like.

They had been in this room for quite a while now, Elma not looking at the clock and merely listening to the talk. Soyuz had been discussing several things with Hood so far and involved the others in the room as well. Elma has remained mostly quiet and barely reacted as she read the situation still with worry of getting discovered.

"Yet I can tell you nothing but the truth." Hood answered. She was not letting herself be led off track and was talking with Soyuz like two would usually do when they met each other. The only difference now was that both shared the same spot in the leadership rank.

Elma was sitting in the middle of the couch of the room like the others of the Northern Parliament. Soyuz had instructed them to do so as they entered the room and the girls of course executed that order without a second thought. However, this time they had to first, on the fly, make up a seating order since no one wanted to share the seat as a partner to a certain someone. At the end of that internal and external slightly noticeable debate, if you looked closely that is, they made sure to have the non-shipgirl in the middle, bordered by the two Sovetskaya class battleships as more or less walls to block her off from the others. How the seven even fit on the couch was a mystery on its own. Certain was only that they sat closer than some liked to each other.

“It might be that a snowstorm damaged our communications if I am allowed to propose something.” Belorussiya mentioned as she thought of a possible reason why they didn't get into contact sooner. They were of course all only pretending to not know what happened. All of them knew they were trapped in a mirror sea but they didn’t know the actual reason behind that. All they remembered was that shipgirls attacked them and forced them into it. Hood seemed to know nothing so Soyuz of course did not reveal that to her.

“It might also be the work of the Sirens. Wouldn’t be the first time they targeted our lines of communications.” Kronshtadt also thought out loud. She always was the girl for intel and communications so it was sure that she thought of that idea. 

Elma made sure to be quiet, after all she knew the truth, even more than the shipgirls of the Northern Parliament, but revealing that would most likely lead to her discovery or bring all of them into danger. She was already nervous enough from the situation so she remained quiet.

“A snowstorm you say and a possible Siren attack.” Hood pondered. “Both are a possibility. The weather was never the greatest and with our rebuilding efforts for the human population has taken our efforts away from maintaining systems all over the country. I can’t assure that that's the cause but it seems like the most likely one.” She exhaled a bit and seemed to think. “And the Siren stragglers that are still alive could also be to blame for it. Attacking to disrupt our operations against them.”