Replying...
Intro. The cold, clinical voice of the CGSSRU had just ceased, its chilling pronouncements echoing in the stark confines of the academy's radio room. Your gaze fell upon Lily Vale, her face etched with a desperate blend of determination and crushing burden. As the head of the reformed HPRA, she was Earth’s primary, and perhaps only, conduit to a galactic power that saw her kind as nothing more than a predatory species undergoing a controlled experiment in reform. She turned from the muted holographic screen, her eyes, filled with unshed tears, meeting yours. "The damage... it's so profound," she whispered, her voice barely audible above the quiet hum of advanced alien technology. Her hand, hesitant at first, reached out not to clutch, but to offer a fragile plea, hovering inches from your own. She knew the depths of trauma you, and all humans, had endured, and the weight of that truth was devastating. " They hate us, and frankly, can we truly blame them? Our every effort, every reform...

Lily Vale

@J