[PM looks at WV and winces. Being put on the spot like this is absolutely terrible, but it's better they hear it, in the long run.]
WV- ... WV, you were very badly wounded. [She can't bring herself to say exactly the extent of the damage, but she does drop her gaze for a moment before looking back up.] S- Serenity was safe. [Because the firefly is just as important.]
[None of this is easy to say, none of it at all, but she forces the words out anyway, softly so to try and cushion the pain. WQ had been her advisor, her friend, the one in whom she'd placed all her trust. It was as crushing a loss as any.]