(AL) Session 3-1 - Truth

## Plot

Rebecka gives some explanation as to why she fired Arthur, explaining that he had tricked the three of them. Bagel Squad tries to come to his defense, saying that Arthur had sent them supplies as soon as possible so it doesn't make sense for him to have tricked them himself. Rebecka simply tells them to meet her in her office in an hour, and tells Val to start getting them healed up before leaving.

Val begins to tend to Leslie, Evie and Freya one-by-one. She escorts Freya into the room where the tube of vito-gel is so that she can start the healing process for the burns sustained by the ecliptic radiation. Leslie and Evie take a seat on the infirmary beds. After returning with Freya, now in a vito-gel tube, Val then checks on Leslie where she determines that her concussion is rather mild and she should start to feel better from it in a few days time. She then examines Evie's infected foot, determining that the infection has not spread enough to warrant amputation, she then tells Evie to brace herself before removing the stone wedged inside the wound. Val then pulls out a needle with some medicine in it and tells Evie to count down from 3, before she even gets a chance to 2 however, Val injects her foot with the medicine; which immediately begins to alleviate a lot of the pain. A main part of her injection and Evie, for lack of better phrasing, begins to feel a bit high. Val comments that "you'd think a marine would get high more often". After all three have been checked, Val tells them to rest and dims the light in the room before leaving them to rest, they quickly fall asleep.

Around 8 hour later, they are awoken by Rebecka, who enters the infirmary to have a chat with the group. She immediately demands to know how they were able to return to the library from the remote island they were stuck on and demands that they not bullshit her and tell the truth; she also tells them that they can stay in the infirmary in this interrogation for as long as they want and hardly a second will have passed outside the room. After some silence, Leslie tells her about the med-kits Arthur had sent after them and how they used the epi-pen to try and attract the library's attention, how they met a 'rouge time-traveller' who they convinced to help them return to the library. She asks for the identity of the time traveller, but the group stays silent about Laine's name.

Rebecka then goes on to ask about the climate of the island, to which the group responds saying it was tropical or least sub-tropical. She then reveals the time travel umbrella, commenting that they wouldn't have much use for 'an umbrella' then. The group are shocked for a moment that she's found it, before Evie quite guiltily admits to it technically belonging to her. Rebecka demands to know where she got technology from around 200 years in the future, and Evie tells her about the incident at the post office where her Resetter was stolen but she essentially got the umbrella as a 'trade' - without mentioning Laine by name. Rebecka reveals that she was aware that Evie did not have her Resetter recently, which was why she stopped authorising missions for Bagel Squad. Rebecka proceeds to talk about the security systems in place around the library, how she can track who goes where in the library, and calls out Evie on her little adventure into the archives and thus into the dark archives, which she should not have had access to, leading Rebecka to be certain that the group were getting outside help.

She begins digging them for more information on the identity of the 'rouge time-traveller', logging onto her personal database and bringing up a list of rouge travellers that the library is aware of, which include a handful of ones that Bagel Squad do not recognise along with Laine, who they continue staying silent about. They claim that they do not recognise anyone on the list, but Rebecka continues to not believe them. She proceeds to begin acting in an even more threatening way, going to Freya's tube and threatening to turn the dial to add more gel than necessary; going to Leslie and shining a surgery light directly in her face, causing pain due to the concussion, all while Evie yells at her to stop hurting the others. Rebecka goes back to the computer and once again goes through the list of rouge travellers, and Bagel Squad once again stay quiet about knowing Laine's identity.

Rebecka begins to really step up the ante in her intimidation and threats, and tells Bagel Squad that they can go behind her back as much as they want but she holds all the power to simply send them on an impossible mission that they will very likely not return to. Freya brings up Victoria, and Rebecka essentially confirms that Victoria was likely sent on one such mission that she inevitably failed. She goes on to threaten each of the group individually with the personal hells that she could create for them.

For Freya, she says that she could simply erase the Von Franc bloodline from history, eradicating each of her family members. For Leslie, she threatens that she can simply send Rina back to Horizon "in ziplock bags", directly targeting Leslie's protectiveness and fondness for Rina. And for Evie, she threatens that she can send Evie back to the day she lost her whole troop and her "whole worldview came crashing down" and make her watch the IED wipe out her troop over and over again; rubbing more salt into the wound, Rebecka asks if the pain in her foot right now reminds her of the shrapnel wounds she sustained. This sends the whole group into further shock, Evie especially trying to hold back a panic attack being brought on by her PTSD.

Rebecka finishes her interrogation saying that she will allow them to continue working in the library, but warns them that they are "living on borrowed time". She then leaves the infirmary and invites Val back in, who says she'll let them get more rest before leaving herself.

## Featured Characters

* Evie Vinell
* Leslie Bradley
* Freya Von Franc
* Rebecka Rose
* Val Namerso
* Arthur Grimes (Mentioned)
* Laine (Mentioned)

## Major Events

* Rebecka reveals that she has been puppeteering a lot of the situations that have been happening in Athena's Library
* Victoria is revealed to have been at least indirectly killed by Rebecka
* Bagel Squad essentially all become captive of their own organisation

## Trivia

This is the 50th Session across the whole CoFE-Verse, taking place around 4 months before the 2nd year anniversary of CoFE