[There's no time for manners in times of crisis, Josephine.
Then again, Uranus is brusque even against the lowest of stakes, and things aren't dire enough for her always-tenuous hold on her own aloofness to slip.]
Look out for yourself, first. [Again: No help from the dead.] Then...
[There's a painful pause in which 'make yourself useful' might go. Her appraising gaze rakes the disheveled woman over, icy.] What can you do? [Maybe she should just stay out of the way.]
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Then again, Uranus is brusque even against the lowest of stakes, and things aren't dire enough for her always-tenuous hold on her own aloofness to slip.]
Look out for yourself, first. [Again: No help from the dead.] Then...
[There's a painful pause in which 'make yourself useful' might go. Her appraising gaze rakes the disheveled woman over, icy.] What can you do? [Maybe she should just stay out of the way.]