Hello, I love your story negotiations on shaky vines. I do have one critique, and that is when Cleo realized that they were tricking her about the casualty reports when she was in that simulation. It doesn't really fit with her personality to react like she did. I would think that she should have completely lost all trust in the affini. She trusted them, offered her help, they lied and manipulated her. With her background it would seem more appropriate to distrust the affini moving forward.