She lies because they are literally surrounded by enemies and will die if they don’t keep their heads in the game.
She lies because he’s with Ashley.
She lies because she’s with Chris.
She lies because her entire world axis is tilting with the news that the person responsible for the worst thing to ever happen in her life is free and she cannot risk jeopardizing her safe harbor.
She lies because she has spent so much time lying to herself she won’t be able to recognize her own reflection once the truth comes out.
So Lucy uses her damned psychology degree and hides behind terms like “intimate act” and “basic biology” to protect the operation, to protect Tim, to protect herself.
If given the opportunity, I WILL make my player characters look like cringefail little meow meows who look like they were forced to be here and just want to get back home
Plop Plop: I haven't slept in seventy-three hours.
Randy: Eighty. Democratically elected leader of insomnia.
First Ninja: Bitch, it's been ninety for me. I'm going for an even one hundred.
Howard: You guys are fucking terrifying.
I know its a dumb thing to point out but I continue to be absolutely horrified by the lack of trigger discipline in the early chapters of Trigun like...
Hun.. no.
Stop.
Who taught y'all to hold guns?
I assume it was a conscious choice on Nightow's part to show how inexperienced these women and the average layperson is with guns but still..