An Old Face

Silence fell across the holographic meeting as Lara and I stared one another down, neither of us willing to give any quarter as we both stared daggers across the table. 

"You… know each other?" Tessa asked from my side, "How is that even possible?" 

I mulled the question over in my head, wondering how much I should give away considering the situation that Lara and I had found ourselves in when we had last met. 

Destroying a planet in combat was certainly one way of getting to know someone. 

I didn't get the chance to tell the story my way. 

"Oh, Jacob and I are very well acquainted with one another," Lara said, "We knew one another a long time ago, in a place very different and yet incredibly similar to this one. Never mind, I'm sure we will settle our differences at some point or another." 

There was a lot layered into that statement that I had to carefully try to unpick.