[ it doesn't come to either degar or viveca as a surprise when ziggy approaches them post-mission. they'd more or less invited her after all — and this ... yeah. this is important.

and more or less unprecedented.

degar shakes his head though, offering ziggy what he hopes is a reassuring smile. ]

Hey — hey, first and foremost, you didn't do anything wrong. Something sure happened, something neither of us are overly familiar with, but you didn't screw up, okay? We'll figure it out. Teamwork and all that.

[ he's ... thinking, resisting the urge to scratch at his head, and glances in viv's direction before turning back to ziggy. ]

Maybe you can tell us exactly what happened at the end?