"It's only been three weeks if they're consistent on the date. The time occasionally changes but it always falls around this time of the year. Peace negotiations one time delayed it by a week but they were always in the time of Peaceful Rest during my death"

"What I don't get is how three members of your family even if one of them was involuntarily initially could do what they do during the Peaceful Rest"

"It's what they chose when they decided to leave the fighting. Their fight is now on a different level but consider what would happen if they didn't work during the Peaceful Rest, and this is actually the first time they are doing so depending on what's happening"

"You're right I didn't think about that. At least otherwise they should be able to properly observe the Peaceful Rest...if they explained things to the right people"

"Don't worry the right people know of the Peaceful Rest, I made sure of it when I joined the group"

"Okay works for me"

"How so?"

"Karen also observes the Peaceful Rest whenever possible as much as possible"

"Unfortunately our situation at the moment prevents it but it is what it is"

"Karen if we managed to get proof out would your family..."

"No the three members would not be recalled especially considering what time of the year it is for my normal job"

"I forgot about that"

"Figured you had"

"Either way they're out of contact for another month at least due to the fact that we don't have proof of Nakodian involvement"

"How long has the rest of the world known about the situation here being illegal?"

(Winces) "I'm not entirely sure they know yet, your family started wondering when things didn't improve with the coup but before they could voice concerns to the UN..."

(Sighs) "I get it, everything had to go deep underground and there was no longer any proof that things might not be what they seemed here and my family doesn't interfere lightly and it's worse during Peaceful Rest. OK we can manage to get the picture out my family will get involved quickly but that's not going to be easy considering the communication that I'm going to have to sneak in to use and we don't know how long before America starts bombing runs and kills innocent civilians out of ignorance. I'm pretty sure that the EDC alerted the American military after you guys got the call but with my family incommunicado for the moment they don't know even if you were alerted before my reported death you guys don't disturb them during Peaceful Rest until you have on the ground confirmation and you guys are now probably considered missing yourselves. Add in the Japan and South Korea situation and my family is going to be a pain to get involved and we seriously don't have the time right now"

"And what's this about you guys not having proof?"

"When she talks about proof Captain she means more than a picture that got them here in the first place that they didn't even see until they arrived. We need a more recent picture and a way to transmit it to the correct people so that they know it's the truth, and also alert them to the civilian situation too all without getting ourselves killed in just getting the message out"

(Sighs) "Kerenai I think I'm starting to see why you requested to send the message out when the Captain offered his own methods that you don't know about for whatever reason. I hate to admit it but you revealing yourself at that time would have saved us a lot of trouble right now"

"Exactly, now then I know some of you think this is as stupid as when I was twelve but think about it for a moment and you'll realize how smart it really is"

"You're right us EDC officers really do think it's as stupid as when you were twelve but once again we're backed into a corner and you're the only one who has the best chance of making it out. The Nakodians already know who you are because of how you managed to get us to safety but with your skills at disguising yourself and even simply being sneaky you have the best chance out of all of us"

"So what's the decision?"

"Karen can do her best to get a message out, however it will have to wait until she's medically cleared because of the infection"

"Will her message even be believed because of the situation?"

(Sighs) "I believe so because it is impossible to fake the codes that are needed. I do mean literally impossible, we tested it when she was what thirteen Kerenai?"

(Snorts) "I think not, try seven I was really young at the time"

"Either way, another soldier was selected to try and copy Karen's codes but due to the fact that her codes are long and complicated depending on the situation she has to be exact or people could make a mistake either that or she could make a mistake and make things worse. I believe when the soldier tried to use a copy of the codes which were slightly altered from the original and also a copy anyways he got caught pretty easily proving to the world that the codes were bomb proof and that no one but her could use the codes properly. After that I do believe she was taught the art of selective memory deletion"

"Actually I learned that accidentally after Captain Faireborn's crash one time and realized I could use it on myself...which is probably why I've forgotten the Captain of the guards method of communicating which in all things considered is probably a good thing"

"What you do is not memory deletion but memory modification Kerenai and it's permanent"

"My family developed a drug that would help me remember the codes if I had to forget them remember? I believe they tested it on another soldier who had access to highly classified information and they made sure he forgot in a controlled setting and after being given the reversal drug he remembered the information he was supposed to remember which for the test wasn't even actually classified but he was told it was so that he would agree to the test and know that it would work if he needed to forget the other information"

"How could he be lied to?"

"Because he didn't know that the information had been declassified for two days yet"

"Oh...that would do it, it takes some time to get that information correctly down the chain of command depending on what the information is"

"Exactly, and he wasn't even aware of the information because it wasn't part of his duties to know that kind of classified intel"

"Okay we get the point Kerenai is the safest bet all things considered but only after she's medically cleared. In the meantime I believe you owe us a story about when you were twelve and wound up in a coma for two weeks"

"Yeah I do and I have the time"

The group gathers around to hear Karen's story because Karen never really revealed much about herself even after the EDC officers arrived and her true name was revealed

"Now then one thing you must understand is that the coma was unintentional. What I did was so that the Doctor's had both the proof the police would need and the means to identify what the poison was. Another thing you have to realize is that I was the only person who could do what I did and survive because unfortunately and fortunately at the same time I have a ridicules poison immunity which means it takes a lot more poison to affect me than the average person. I also recover a lot quicker too which is probably why the coma only lasted two weeks"

"However poison can still kill her, it just takes a lot more than the average dose to do so which is both a blessing and a curse as she mentioned. It's a blessing when she's captured by the enemy and they try to poison her but it's also a curse because even if a poison can't kill her that easily she's still affected by them depending on the dose and some of the poisons are downright painful before they kill"

"Now then no one ask questions until I'm done because I'm pretty sure the story will give answers in itself and do understand that everything was unintentional in regards to the coma"

Twelve years old

Karen was drinking a bottled tea that the school was trying out when after two gulps she realized something was off and stopped a student right next to her before he even had a sip. The principal was in the cafeteria at the time and noticed it and came over because she knew that Karen wasn't like that

"What are you thinking Kerenai?"

"The tea's poisoned. John I need your drink and then I also need three others as well, call the hospital and explain you have a poisoning. I don't know how fast reacting the poison is so you need to work fast"

Karen quickly drank five poisoned drinks and was quickly reacting to it via a seizure. Unfortunately Karen didn't really explain what was going on to the principal other than the fact that the drinks were poisoned however the principal didn't believe her words because she knew the company and was going to ask for an explanation when Karen drank the five drinks. The ambulance gave her what they could to help with the seizures and then at the hospital Karen was tested for the poison for the antidote which they discovered. They also discovered that Karen only needed to drink two bottles of tea for the concentration to be noticed because of her poison immunity. Two weeks after the incident Karen woke up in the hospital drowsy and hooked up to a few mandatory pieces of equipment and some oxygen but through a nasal canola because she was breathing on her own

"How long?"

"You've been in a coma for two weeks. The doctor's said that it's lucky you have a poison immunity otherwise the amount you had would have killed you instantly, as it is there were a few close calls in the first seventy-two hours because of seizures. We also had to explain why you did what you did to your principal because you didn't give her a chance to ask questions she needed. The police are still looking into the incident by the way and also stated that it's lucky you were the one who had the drink first otherwise things could have turned out very differently"

"Guess so, how mad is the principal?"

"Now that she has the full story she isn't mad at you she's mad at the company and is doing everything she can to find out what happened and who poisoned the drinks, she's cooperating fully with the police by the way"

"Good to know, how long am I going to be in the hospital?"

"At least another week after that we'll see"

"Understood"

Present

"The police did eventually find the culprits and it was discovered that the company was not involved at all, instead what was happening was that a driver was being paid to poison the drinks at random intervals except for the school. Now then they had to wait for the school year to start but otherwise if not for me many people would have gotten sick or died because they wouldn't have detected the poison until it was too late"

"We discovered even later that the group was experimenting with multiple poisons some of which would have shown up in little concentration even in Karen because they were either newer or rarer poisons that Karen would not have much chance to have an immunity to. There's also the fact that when we say Karen has a ridicules poison immunity we are not talking about a true immunity"

"She's right, when we say that I have a ridicules poison immunity we're talking more about my bodies ability to recognize poison much quicker than most people would simply through taste. If I notice the poison soon enough I will either not get sick at all or my symptoms will be very mild and short term. If I am forced to take poison then like I said it takes stronger doses to truly affect me like a poison should and even then depending on the poison it might not take as much as people think"

"She also gets sicker a lot quicker too when it comes to the stronger poisons which her body is able to recognize. As it is her immunity is not a fully recognized immunity in the medical field and is more commonly called poison recognition instead even though it's been documented that her body is more capable of handling a poison then regular people. And when she gets sick from poison she gets sick the coma was the worst but if I recall correctly a ship tried to poison you once and instead of mild symptoms you were in the hospital for a week because you couldn't keep anything down"

"That's actually not the worst of it coma not withstanding. Not many people know this because of the time period but one time I was helping an officer with an undercover op because I just happened to walk right into it accidentally doing some work during the school year, remember?"

"Oh yeah I remember that year, you did it just to make sure that what you wanted was what you wanted instead of just thinking you wanted to be a SEAT you made sure by taking that temporary job"

"Well I was conned into helping the officer and we were caught. The group tortured us and used different poisons, they gave me the stronger poison because they didn't want any witnesses to the cops torture. That got me a month in the hospital with several CDC scientists doing multiple tests on me to not only identify the poisons but also try and figure out just how I survived such a poison. As it is I would have been in the hospital for two weeks anyways because my body was slow to get the poison out of my system. The extra two weeks was the CDC making sure they got all the tests they could think of out of the way"

"Either way the EDC has been fighting to get her immunity truly recognized as an immunity but it hasn't happened yet. And with her supposed death no one but us has been willing to fight for it as well and the CDC has completely ignored us for the past year"

"Well then, I think when I finally return to the fold I will start fighting myself. I never knew about the petitions otherwise I would have joined in and explained things in more detail to the CDC when they were doing their tests so that they understood that it is a true immunity"

"And once the CDC recognizes your immunity the rest of the medical community will have to recognize it as well"

"Exactly"

Just then Karen was called over by the leaders for a reason even she didn't think would happen

"You're the only person who speaks French and while I think some of them know English they're only speaking in French"

"The Foreign Legion, I never expected them to come into play here"

"Yeah, France asked America if they could send the Legion in first apparently, that's in a multilingual note by the way which is the only reason I know their purpose"

"I think I know why, the EDC is out of communication and while America has full right to go in first the Legion can be a bit sneaker than American forces who are sneaky enough at need, however the enemy would expect American forces and France knows that. Okay I'll talk to them and see where we'll go from there"