[The bitterness, of all things, makes her smile wryly. The expression crinkles her eyes, but can't quite hide her mutual annoyance.]

Because Morningstar's super shitty about trusting new people to keep themselves out of trouble. They only landed us in Red Wings because this bunker was still being rebuilt after a monster attack, and everything was fine.

Lance is trying to make some headway on it, but I guess some newbies fucked up once, so they just decided to lock everybody up instead of, y'know- figuring out something that might work better.

[Ellie gives a gusty sigh, rolling her shoulders.]

I get they're trying to protect us, but getting locked up out of the gate makes it real fucking hard to feel grateful.