More words to parse out. Words that had very little--if any--meaning to Ariadne. It was easy enough to assume that 'Maki' was a person. And that the ugly 'bitch' was the monster they were discussing.

Coolant, oxygen, and plasma cannons, though, were a little much for her.

She would just take it for granted that the situation was...bad.

"That sounds...very frightening," she said, sweet and nonjudgmental, not accepting his apology because there was really no reason to apologize.