[That she doesn't text him again in the interim is a force of will. Suffice to say she spends a significant portion of the delay between one and the next pinging his personnel tracking ID-- just in case. It doesn't actually tell her anything, doesn't give her any life line stats. He could be perfectly fine in the same spot or he could be a corpse and she wouldn't know the difference. But it goes a long way to settling her and that counts for something until his message eventually rolls in.]
FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Whatever. I'd rather eat pad thai than sushi anyway. You should all be thanking me
FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
And hello no. When we retire I'm hiring a personal chef for us all so all I have to be responsible for is drinking my requisite number of mai tais and making sure no one litters on my awesome private beach
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FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
Whatever. I'd rather eat pad thai than sushi anyway. You should all be thanking me
FROM: shepard.lydia@cdc.org
And hello no. When we retire I'm hiring a personal chef for us all so all I have to be responsible for is drinking my requisite number of mai tais and making sure no one litters on my awesome private beach