[It's not too long after they make it back up from the surface - perhaps a few days, though. Long enough for Lili to try to find some sense of normalcy with her routine after recovering from the trauma of it all. Still, she could manage to some of the people that she had met there and found herself wondering about their current state.
Hijikata didn't seem like a bad person - if anything, she had felt sorry for his loss. They'd gotten separated again, as was so common down there, but she hadn't heard anything from him....
Still, her text to him is almost like when she's addressing the soldiers that she commanded back home in its distance and bluntness.]
Your status since returning to the colony?
[ . . . it's a little embarrassing to ask "are you okay"
text; post-event
Hijikata didn't seem like a bad person - if anything, she had felt sorry for his loss. They'd gotten separated again, as was so common down there, but she hadn't heard anything from him....
Still, her text to him is almost like when she's addressing the soldiers that she commanded back home in its distance and bluntness.]
Your status since returning to the colony?
[ . . . it's a little embarrassing to ask "are you okay"
so
she did it in her own way?!]