Coalhada
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Tabitha, please highlight Dark. Tabitha and Ourania are tied for strings on me.
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"I don't know anything about that, I only signed up to get Tabitha out of iso," I say. "But look, the corps always know where you are. If they were looking to grab you before, they would have." More of that dark hinting about bad things happening. …
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Of course I'm one of them - I gesture at the uniform with a yes, duh expression on my face. "I think you know more about it than I do," I reply. "What do you have that needs processing?" I can see Ashlee eyeing possible exits. "I don't know why …
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I stand close to Ashlee and look up and down the hallway. Looking for Eff. Looking for trouble. "What's the deal with this 'processing' thing anyway, Ashlee?" I ask like it's no big deal because it isn't, really. We're all going to get "processed…
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Sure, the court, whatever. "Yeah, come on." I start off in the direction of the speedball court, but slowly. I ping Eff and leave a message on her Navi, but I'm careful not to say her name out loud. "It's Mark. Larsen. I'm with Ashlee Rai. We're in…
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"Right, so don't worry about that. Unless there's something you're not telling me?" I turn my head when the comm message comes in. I'm silent for a while. I look up at Ashlee. No, she didn't hear it. I am filled with an empty feeling. I slurp the…
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Strange that Ashlee should be so worried about hurting someone else. And not herself. I look at the shapes of her bones and wonder which part of her will break first. A cracked rib, maybe. A fractured metatarsal. Something more permanent. People b…
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I nod. "That's what I like about speedball, you know? There's something everyone can do. I mean, every shape of person. You get other sports where if you're not super tall, you may as well not show up. Or where if you're big, you can't play. Or wha…
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I sit down opposite Ashlee. I eye her blue paste somewhat enviously. "Yeah, sorry if it wasn't clear, about you playing. I mean, you're OK with it, right? Size isn't everything. Don't worry about that." I pick up a single green cube with my chops…
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"I said you'd be our secret weapon, right?" I say to Ashlee. "Make sure you print the change strip too, before you come to practice." I wait for Rys to get his breakfast and roll my eyes at the red "run out" light that turns on over the blue-paste…
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"Hey, Ashlee." I smile at her. "How ya doing?" I do not like the trainee corp uniform. It doesn't have any pockets, it's a weird grey-purple colour, and the trouser legs are a weird length, like they're too small for me. Do they all look this dorky…
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I laugh in disbelief. "Bea? That poor girl." I think about what happened in the resyke bay and think that maybe I do mean "poor girl" more seriously than I said it. I stand up, back off a little. My eyes flick down to Rys's stick for a moment. …
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I'm holding the bridge position when Rys asks me this (it's a good stretch for building flexibility as well as strength) and I have to lower myself to the floor, because I can't deal with that kind of dumbness while my head is upside-down. "OK, le…
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"And what am I, chopped liver? Assault is a week in iso, no matter how inept. We're talking about if she wasn't on the friendly list." I shake my head, stand up. "Everything else she's done, I'm pretty sure she was told to do it. Ordered. Breakin…
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That's ominous. I wonder which button he clicked. "Nothing you don't already know about. Most people would only just be getting out of iso now, with those violent conduct demerits she would've got the other day." I wonder what it would take for O…
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The possibility of becoming kindergarten corp does not fill me with joy. "Take Ourania off the friendly list and that's job done. But somehow I don't think that would go down too well. Better look for something else." I do have that lead on Pax. …
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"Yeah, I get you." I sit down and flip the gravity to help with some deep stretches. "Assuming I don't screw up the candidate period, where d'you think I'll end up as corp?" I don't really want to leave Eight. I like it here. I'm used to it, at le…
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I frown, a little puzzled. Why would Ashlee be important? I mean, sure, we're all the future of the ship and so on, but apart from that. "She's like a walking speedball encyclopaedia. If she can turn everything in her brain into reality on the cou…
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I look over in Jace's direction and then back to Rys. "We have a tissue-thin squad as it is. Can't afford to drop anyone. Pax is competition for Tabitha, not Jace. Though I'll most likely start Pax instead of him. He can switch up with Zola." I'm …
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I'm about to complain about "Corporal Lar" when I realise there are less flattering three-letter strings he could choose from my name, so I leave it. I have no idea what corp name I want. Maybe an unpronounceable set of consonants. "Corporal XXX" …
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A home-made quizzing station. What a dork. Rys is loving this. Loving it. The first few questions are pretty easy. But they get harder. "I... didn't know you knew about that," I say without looking up. "It was OK." Test-taking: (Rolled: 2d6+2. R…
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It seems like Rys is less concerned about... I guess you could call it white-collar crime. He knows that Aiden learns stuff he probably shouldn't, for example. But that's largely invisible. If it shows up on camera, it matters. And if I had to s…
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I can't say I'm surprised. This is where those double training sessions from last season come back to haunt me. I roll out of bed. My sheets are all wrapped around my legs. I lever myself upright like a mummy emerging from the sarcophagus. That's …
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I roll myself up in my covers and mumble a protest, turning to face the wall, "Mmff, snuh... skywhales." I feel instinctively that Rys will not accept this as a reason to go away. I roll onto my back and open my eyes as far as I can, which is not …
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I nod. This is reassuring, a little. "I just never met anyone who's graduated before, that's all." A little shrug, a little smile. "Thanks. Goodnight." I'd better get back to my room. Maybe I'll use some of my monthly message quota, send a note t…
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I thank the doctor and make my way to the door. I need to get some sleep. At the door I stop and look back at Doc Arissa on the screen. "Doctor, can I ask you something? You don’t have to answer if it's none of my business, of course. Were you e…
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Question: What is the voice concealing about its bargain?
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Hold Steady: +2 Cold The worst thing that could happen is that Nadja is right there when I take the headset off. (Rolled: 2d6+2. Rolls: 4, 3. Total: 9)
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I start to get the shakes. I can't handle this. "That's not my decision to make!" I shout into the dark. I turn to face Pris again. "Pris, there's this..." There's this voice in my head that tells me stuff. No, that is not the right thing to say…
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I turn away from Pris, to address the shadows at the edges of this place. As if that's where I'll see the face of the voice. "What does that mean? Turn her over, how?" I say to it, my arms spread.