Prompt: affected (or: first impressions are something she excels at)
This Follows # 3: Behind
When he slips into the room, it is after Shepard asks. Her pitch is on-point and honest in tone. It is done without violence and after a summary of events. She has her back to him, her team has already left. He does not know her well enough to perceive this as an insult or professional courtesy. Finds he cannot dismiss her.
"On the desk is a disk," she says, "you'll have twenty-four hours."
He is left alone. A clean kill, an uninterrupted prayer. He takes the disk to check her story and questions the worth of her mission.
Acceptable.