Elle stares at the leader. Wait... They've been kidnapped so they'd help find someone's missing daughter? Really? All this secrecy, and the gunpoint, and... Really? She takes another good look at the cave, finishes by studying the Orion.
All of this secrecy has to have a good reason, because otherwise none of this would be happening. And they seem to have a decent amount of manpower... So, there has to be a reason why they're not putting those resources towards finding his daughter. It could be that, for whatever reason, they just can't spare the people, like what happened a lot with the NCR. But hiring mercenaries is always an option, right? Except, maybe the quarantine makes that harder. And, besides, this is already a pretty heavy situation, maybe they don't want mercenaries involved in case they turn on them. But there's no guarantee that anyone they kidnapped wouldn't try do the same, if only out of spite, even under pain of death. (Elle knows too many people that stubborn.)
Regardless, all of these things she's thinking through, it's bringing her to one conclusion: the likelihood that they feel they don't have much other choice but to resort to these measures is decently high.
(Or, you know, it could be that Orions don't know how to ask nicely for help and kidnapping people is what they know they're good at. But hey, Elle's still new here. She doesn't know to come up with that assumption.)
Slowly, Elle nods. "I know you didn't exactly ask, but it's pretty clear we're willing, anyway." She shrugs. "But... You decided that you specifically wanted us to do it. Why us?" This is something else that's niggling at her, because she can't even begin to guess the answer.
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All of this secrecy has to have a good reason, because otherwise none of this would be happening. And they seem to have a decent amount of manpower... So, there has to be a reason why they're not putting those resources towards finding his daughter. It could be that, for whatever reason, they just can't spare the people, like what happened a lot with the NCR. But hiring mercenaries is always an option, right? Except, maybe the quarantine makes that harder. And, besides, this is already a pretty heavy situation, maybe they don't want mercenaries involved in case they turn on them. But there's no guarantee that anyone they kidnapped wouldn't try do the same, if only out of spite, even under pain of death. (Elle knows too many people that stubborn.)
Regardless, all of these things she's thinking through, it's bringing her to one conclusion: the likelihood that they feel they don't have much other choice but to resort to these measures is decently high.
(Or, you know, it could be that Orions don't know how to ask nicely for help and kidnapping people is what they know they're good at. But hey, Elle's still new here. She doesn't know to come up with that assumption.)
Slowly, Elle nods. "I know you didn't exactly ask, but it's pretty clear we're willing, anyway." She shrugs. "But... You decided that you specifically wanted us to do it. Why us?" This is something else that's niggling at her, because she can't even begin to guess the answer.