Max smiled and giggled slightly at the kissing, looking over her shoulder and giving him a quick nuzzle before turning her head back to the window. "I'm counting on it; I can't interview her or monitor how she's reacting if she stays asleep. She's restrained, so it should be safe..."
"If it gose south too fast I'm right here" ace said looking at the guns on the ground "I wont let anything happen to you sweetheart" he told her "But let's hope it dosent come to that"
"Indeed not," Max said with a small smile, before giving him a kiss on the cheek. She picked up a clipboard with her magic, then headed onto the room, just as the mare was stirring...
"Ugh......my hea-" the mare began before realizing she was strapped down and in a unrecanizable place "Wha?!.....hay who the heck is doing this!! Ryder is this one of your pranks!!! Cause is not fricken funny!!!" She yelled as she pulled at her straps
"Please, try to relax," Max said, soothingly, as she approached the mare, standing a foot or so from her bed. "Nopony's going to hurt you. In fact, I want to try and help you. My name is Max, what's yours?"
"It's let me out of this thing!" She said pulling harder and starting to loosen the grip on te straps
"Please don't struggle!" Max urged, tightening the straps with her magic. "I will un-restrain you once I'm sure you're not a threat to yourself or anypony else." She sighed and shook her head; this was going less well than she'd hoped, but about as well as she'd suspected it would.... "Your name?" She asked again, soothingly.
The mare was giving max a vary icy glare "Frost dagger" she said....her name matching her eyes to the T
"Thank you," Max said, trying to remain warm and reassuring, even under the mare's glare. "Now, Miss Dagger, you're a... well you're a raider, would you agree with that?" She asked, getting her pen ready to make some notes.
"Yes" she said angrily Ace wasn't liking her additud to max.......but he didn't have a say in the matter
Max nodded and noted the mare's answer. At least she wasn't delusional... "And how old are you, Ice Dagger?" She asked, wanting to see if being born after the bombs fell had an effect on her behaviour.
"Hmm... well, can you remember the world before the bombs?" Max asked, sitting back on her haunches, beside the bed.
"I'm trying to understand the reason for the way you and those like you act," Max explained, "And to try and help you be normal ponies."
She laughed "Normal!?....what the hell is normal.....you got hell wolves((what the raiders call timber wolves)), zombies, and not to mention hell hounds and other randomized deadly creatures that want to kill anything and everything....how would normal even for in this world!" She said, all the while laughing at max
"All of those creatures are reasons why ponies should work together, rather than kill each other for short term gains," Max replied, sadly, "Ponies helping ponies is normal, and that's what I wish to bring back to this world..."
Dagger looked at max "And what would you have me do?" She asked "stop trying to survive.....we need medical supplies and food just like everypony else..."
"I am trying to set up a place where ponies can get those things without having to fight each other for them," Max said, "But it will only work if everypony works together." She sighed and looked at her clipboard. "That's why I brought you here; I need to find out if your kind are capable of coexisting peacefully with other ponies..."
