( Collette goes still. Her expression doesn't change right away -- she's thinking, and as much as she hates to think, she's been doing more and more of it over the year and then some of her stay in Exsilium.

When she looksk up to Steph, her smile is very subdued, and her tone slips into that factual way of speaking she gets every so often. )

Controlled as in mind controlled. ( One of the things she has no tolerance for. Something Collette hates very much, and funny in a sense, as it's never been something's she's personally been subjected to. Just had to fight and give up everything for to prevent against. ) If it was just physical, there'd be other signs, huh? More than the odd out of character action or two.

( Vanadi her mind whispers. She feels cold. )

Ellie's not camping. Who else? How many?