[ Flynn wakes up to a strange state, one where he somewhat forgets of the city but not really. He knows he's been to the city but he's back home: this is the truth that the Acting-Commandant, no, Commandant finds in himself when he searches for an answer. That and the fact that he'd been staring at the falling pink blossoms of the Halure Tree for more than a few minutes now and Sodia had been worriedly calling out his name, or rather, one of his titles now for just that long.

"Commander, command--"

Shaking his head, and with a smile as he mentally admonished himself for spacing out, Flynn turns to his second-in-command. "I'm sorry, Sodia. I was just thinking--"

Sodia seems alarmed by that statement and she suddenly bursts into a report on how she had her unit check on the area quite thoroughly and how she had found no disturbances at all, not from the people or the monsters surrounding the area. Flynn, though usually more patient and appreciative of his second-in-command's thoroughness and efforts (it's all for their common goal too, though most of that is now on the verge of being achieved ), extends a hand to silence her. Sodia complies of course, wordlessly as every subordinate would when given the hand signal. Flynn realizes to his dismay how that was probably not the best way he could have requested for her to stop.

"Sodia-"

"Yes, Commander?"

"...It's Flynn. Please bear with... I dismissed everyone else, including you, earlier. I'd like for there to be less formality betwe-- I mean. For now. I have--"

Flynn turns to look away, eyes casually surveying the surrounding area as he searched for the right words. He had chosen this spot for the privacy it granted, and also for the fact that it was right beneath the Halure Tree... ]