Huh. Valerie's moving fast with this one. Good shit.

Yeah, I'm game.

Then she cleans up after her meal and gets out her violet wand.

Singularity arrives at the briefing wearing her usual combat outfit — a done-up leather jacket, fingerless gloves, a pair of safety sunglasses, and her usual jeans and combat boots. Though she doesn't wear a helmet, Ancile's seasoned eyes can tell that she's wearing low-profile body armor beneath her coat and jeans. 

"So," she says. "I've worked with barrier espers before, but most of them were lower-powered than you, Ancile, working in teams, and not good matches for my backlash. We're going to have to rederive some of this from first principles. I've gone through the background dossier on you in the last hour to get some familiarity with your M.O. and I think I can see some obvious adaptations, but we're going to need to drill the cover and motion maneuvers in live environments. Usually I burn extra power preventing spalling and shrapnel from TK maneuvers in dungeons, but we might be able to hit higher efficiencies together by relying on your barriers to screen it out. And I'm not going to be used to the degree of mobility you can give me — a pair can move faster than a team of four any day."

Ancile, wearing similar gloves, her reinforced utility jacket and jeans and boots from before, and a moderately personalized armored vest, nods and hums. "Keeping a few barriers going continuously is fairly cheap for me, yeah. Doesn't start getting expensive until either they get big or we need lots. Shouldn't be hard at all to keep one or two between us and any shrapnel-producing actions, especially with the passive sink of your compatibility. Probably I won't need my room-clearing shield-rings very often, with as much range and flexibility as you have. Those are fuckin' expensive."

"Sounds like we've got the basics then. Standard cover drill number six, with screen delta for shrapnel management scenarios?"

She nods. "What do we know about the dungeon itself?"

"We've got good sensing and no unknown areas. Some heavies in the core room — that's where we come in — but nothing we shouldn't be able to handle. Here's the map provided by the sensors, threats marked in red, proposed breaching path in black." 

Liath passes over the document.