"A moment."
Icarus heads to the kitchen for a moment, then returns and delivers her answer in the form of an echoing slap to Sen with a hand covered in salt.
"You and the others playing detectives? ALL YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR IS PROVIDE THE PRISONER WITH READING MATERIAL! It is Kaiser, and Isaac and Walpurga who have actually been doing *something* while all you have been doing is give lectures about your superiority and getting in my way. It's *them* I can place my trust in. Not you. You have not simply done nothing to ever earn my trust, you have been going out of your way to make sure that I can not trust you. How, after all you have ever done to me be so, can you be so conceited to think that I would ever trust you? Especialy when all I have is on the line here. My entire..."
Mid sentence her voice starts to waver, as she sinks down and clutches her face, tears or no tears. For several minutes, she just stammers various almost uninteligable fragments, until her voice rises again, an equillibrium of crying nervous breakdown and sheer hatred.
"..and meanwhile YOU sit here having a nice read, and the others go on dates and movies or trips to south america to beat up the police. Alice needs us right now and YOU have the GALL to tell me that you WOULD be WILLING to help, BUT?! There are no BUTS. It's not even that you are unhelpful, you are being a hindrance. I don't want the help of some stinking demon who does nothing but sit around and then gives lectures about her superiority. Everything I have is on the line here, and when this happens, I'd not feel safe with you around, heck, with you in the same country. Now YOU will shut up, and let US, that is me and my actual friends, save Alice. You may not interfer. Because you I can not depend on. You said it yourself. You are not my ally. And if you are not my ally, and keep getting in the way of saving Alice..."
Icarus extends her blade and rubs some more salt on it.
"Then you will have to try and remember what happened to the last person who tried that. Now be silent, and let the prisoner speak. Because she may yet have valueable information that despite your believes, she actually needs to be asked about, not distracted with books. The bewitcher said Alice is escaped. We do not know where Alice is or how to find her, but we can cover her retreat. We will attack that base, and draw attention to ourselves. In that moment, finding Alice will no longer matter to them. Even if it only buys her a few more minutes, that is the best we can provide for her apart from reading books and waiting that Alice just shows up on her own, or that the prisoner suddenly knows anything new about Alice location that her captors don't."
((for the record, Icarus distrust of Sen is not unfounded. I keep lose track on character interactions with Icarus (+ and - besides a name list), and Sen has not come up with a single +, ever. All she ever does is make sure to be as dislikeable as possible. I really, really do not know where Sen calling for Icarus to just sit back and trust her comes from.))
((Also format errors, but fuck it I am tired and have work tomorrow))