“We’re in our room.” I swallow hard. “Void, Gwen, I’m glad you’re alive.”
Okay, not alive… exactly. You know what I mean.
I look up at Tabitha. “Maybe the corridor?”
I had already started to lean, eyelids fluttering shut before the thump. She startles up and away and I jerk back in confusion and the beginnings of hurt.
It isn’t until Tabitha says Gwen’s name that I sharpen and stand myself looking around. The…
“Stomm,” I breathe, glancing at the walls as if I might see through them, torn between elation and horror, “she might have been in there all these months. We… We have to find a way to get her out of there, or at least talk to her.”
Do the adults …
You're able to locate a small port patrol station within 10 minutes. From the outside you can see several harried looking starport patrol personnel as well as security mechs, parked to recharge. The key question here is how you're planning to get it…
So I'm assuming you get to work, rolling up your sleeves and improvising your tools of course. Tell me how you're keeping the guards from noticing what you're doing
Then let's see your expertise on getting all this set up.
With the team and you especially working on data analysis it becomes clear very quickly The TXR intubator signal is aboard your missing ambulance and it was activated deliberately, it gives you the path. The ambulance went to the facilites of a rela…
My stomach does an odd flip at her look. I furrow my brow slightly and lean in toward her too, bringing our faces close, lowering my voice like it’s a secret. I had written Gwen’s voice off as an interface thing, just wishful thinking on my part. Bu…
“Uh…” I shift a tad awkwardly. I think I should tell her about the naked thing, in case it was Pris doing it unconsciously, just so she’s prepared. But then what does that mean if she doesn’t see the same thing? On top of that, it brings my mind to …
I look at her a moment. I'm not sure if that's a "I won't tell them anything" statement or that she's really uncertain what she would say that I wouldn't want her to. She's not dumb, but some nuances seem to escape her sometimes. She asks about Pris…
“No, you weren’t.” I say, firmly, even if my volume is still low. “You’re not.”
With the shift of weight, at first, I’m afraid she wants me to let go. I wouldn’t blame her. But her hold doesn’t slacken really, nor do I get the sense that she’s rus…
I feel Tabitha's arms about my back, her hand stroke my hair and it... I don't know. For a moment there seems to still be some hesitation, the touch tentative, fearful, afraid but pitying. It goads the storm inside me. I'm almost ready to pull away,…
I can just imagine the Commandant’s disappointment at me not being able to control myself. I can see that look in her eye. Like she would say to Dad, emotions are energy and like all energy on this ship, they should be put to a useful purpose instea…
I shrug, feeling sort of beaten down and with pressure in my head and chest. All the stomm today...
"Thanks." The shower suggestion is a good one so I kick off shoes and pants, dropping the latter haphazardly on my bed. I reach to unhook my bra and…
I nod when Tabitha says I’m not interrupting and drops the hint on Bea to leave. I move past to my bed, like Bea is no concern of mine. I’ve just stripped off my shirt and thrown it on the bed when she starts to talk.
I half turn toward her, cros…
I stop in the door, gut still roiling from my last encounter with Larsen. My lips compress in annoyance that Bea is in here even as I feel a twinge somewhere. I give my roommate a tight smile.
"Hey." I return her greeting. Then my eyes shift to Bea…
I blanch at his accusation and a spike of mortification runs though me. My face gets hot. A guess... It has to be a guess. Which stokes my fury again, which is coming back to me, an old comfortable friend, and I mostly recover.
I'm so disoriented …
"Lies do that." My smirk is grim, but satisfied. I continue. "Pris loved you. She still loves you, poor girl. I'm just a friend, she never saw me that way, so you can stop with the stomm."
They get you set up and Rajani transfers the data to the share as you asked. I'm going to say that between their access and support from Kali's team you have two data points to spend how you choose.
It's not really a question of if you find Robynne…
Right...
So what's your plan then? I mean, I know gravity has beaten the hell out of you here, but I'm presuming you just aren't going to wait around. Or... I don't know, do you think you can talk Vyvyan out of it?
The paintings are lovely. Why w…
Mark... Up until just recently, my favorite fantasies by far were about being with Pris... and you... both.
I pull my Navi to look at the message.
Ourania, are you alright? I expected you back at the dorm sooner. Let me know if you need me.
…
I look at him sharply. A frisson of fear at what he claims to know. “Weird? About me? You need to look in the mirror Captain Speedbutt. Something happened to you. Something in that airlock. Something weird. And what the drokk do you mean ‘what I did…
The visit with Pris fades like a lovely dream. And when I take the helmet off I'm looking right at Larsen. How's that for a drokking wake-up?I see Nadja seeing the doc somewhere behind him. I raise an eyebrow and puff an impatient breath through my …
“I was, uh, I was joking, Pris.” I sigh. “Or trying to. S-sorry. Mark and me… we’re like a billion kliks from compatible and he…” I squeeze her hands, almost by reflex, “he’s the very last person on this ship I’d want to be with.”
I shuffle a bit,…
My ‘burden’ is drokknig pointless if I can’t protect someone like Pris.
The sense of her disappointment at my split focus compunds my guilt. For drokk’s sake. She’s lonley and I’m not treating her any better than Mr. My-dick-is-happy-so-I-think-I-…
Gwen?
A strange stab of hope and fear. If I thought I felt confused before…
It’s hard, splitting your attention in this thing. It creates this strange dissonant feeling. And a headache. I glance around the illusory med bay to see if I actually d…
I can’t help wave of fury that rises up in me when she asks about Nadja, even as the voice distracts me. I bite back the feeling.
“No.” I say, then softer. “I mean…I don’t think so. It seems like just her using… just for the attention, you know? B…
Admittedly there’s not a lot. Vyvyan or whoever put this place together for xir was clever enough. But still, this place was built to be a room, rather than a true security cell and there’s infrastructure in modern construction (much of it pioneered…
[Kohaku]
"I am Her Imperial Highness' loyal servant. It is not my place to question her wisdom." She says cooly from slightly in front of you.
Yep, she's pissed. What's the real giveaway? I'm assuming Kohaku came along after Rieva or were they …