Ruby was trying to act calm. She had a lot of practice, so it wasn't like it was a particular challenge, but she had no idea of whether or not there were people who could read her mind directly around her. It wasn't hard to put on an act and just become the person she decided to, even in the immediate mentality, so long as it was a mind she could conceivably comprehend, but in order to do that she needed to know what exactly she was supposed to be pretending to be.

Her older self's notes were... Well they had been coded similarly to how she'd done in her own world, but it wasn't thorough enough for Ruby to understand exactly what she was supposed to act like, just basic information about the people around her. Whatever her older self had been expecting, it wasn't an alternate version of herself who had spent the last year being an actual teenager. Let alone a teenager hopping into her adult body and piloting it while-

She stopped and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath. She was on patrol outside the actual sactum at least. She could probably rest assured that no psychics were peeping into her head at this moment. This was likely the best chance to get her story straight before the extraction team had time to come get her. Just her, the snow, and the empty land around her.

Or, at least that's what she thought, completely unaware she was being hunted.