Commander Li frowned. "What you survived?"
As far as he was concerned, the only thing that would ever count as survival was the time she had to sleep without air conditioning when the power went out in the base for five hours.
Meilan's gaze flicked toward him, then away again, as though he was not the person she wanted to convince. She still saw Commander Li as an extension of her father's authority, useful when obedient and irritating when not. She had not yet accepted that the man was standing in Rouxi's living room under his own command.
"We survived the first ten years of the apocalypse," Meilan announced like she was announcing that the world was flat or something equally ridiculous. "We were reborn early on... before the apocalypse even came. We know things from the first timeline that you are going to want to know. That is... if you want to stay alive."
The only problem with her confidence was that no one seemed to really react to her words at all.
