Terci's skin tone doesn't lend itself to hiding a blush, and it fails to do so once again at her reaction to your compliment.
"Thank you, Sai.". She says avoiding your eyes as she crouches in the grass next to you, setting her other bag on the b…
I half shrug. “From Mom… earlier.” I lie through my teeth, and do my best to act normally. For all her difficulty with interaction Tabitha notices things that most people have tuned out. Communication with the Commandant has been one-way for weeks w…
A few moments later a servant comes into the garden announcing the Duchess. Rei herself comes in behind her. She's dressed richly but with less flash and perhaps more elegant way than during her trip aboard the Blessings. She holds herself well but…
She sits there, silent, for several minutes. She looks at the bulb then at you, then looks away, like she's trying to resist it. Like she hates the idea that she wants it... that she needs it. She lets out a rattling, defeated sigh then reaches for …
It's probably the space, but what I like is that the cameras in the room are broken. They don't tell us that, of course, but they are. And there's a maintenance access hatch in one corner.
I peel off my jacket laying it neatly it on my perfectly …
Our work is the best, surprisingly, and it's only after I really analyze our compilation of notes that I figure out why. Rys contributes little and Lucas's contribution is merely average. Mine is good, but the real star of the show in terms of info…
The bundle raises its head, glares venomously at you with her good eye, then spits on the floor between you with swollen lips and turns her head again... what do you do?
Terci slows as she approaches a shadow flickering across her features.. just the tiniest dimming of her expression as she glances between you, taking in the kites and you leaning on Allevard. You catch it, don't you Allevard? When you call out, Rob…
Lucas is delusional. Friends? Why would he think we were friends? But Nadja's expression gets to me. It just makes me angrier. I can feel the muscle working in my jaw with my teeth all clenched.
She's an idiot. I don't care what she thinks. Never h…
My eyes shift to Lucas.
"My name does not begin with an R." I say turning back to my Navi. "And I wasn't gawking."
Lucas creeps people out. Yes, I know I do too, but it can't be helped in my case, I have a job to do. He's just...ew. That statemen…
Rieva is in rough shape, to be sure. She lets out a wheezing laugh that ends in a pained inhale at Jek's comments. She glanced up through the security field when you came in, then turned her face away, but not before you could see what happened.
On…
I give an exasperated sigh through my nose after Ashlee has left the room. There is something seriously wrong with that girl, something unbalanced. She's not trustworthy. And here she flipped out on poor Priscilla. I start to get up but Mark is th…
Of course Rys is watched. I'm right here, aren't I? But other than me, no. I mean sure the class cams are probably on but I've never heard of any consequences directly stemming from what happens after Malcolm goes that doesn't come from Rys himself.…
I let out a little huff move to them, pulling around to between the two. Nice to know that I'm so close to an arrogant thug that they actually have to think about it.
"I suggest we look at the notes passed on by Mr. Eddy, unless someone has a diffe…
I watch the exchange, give Rys a look. Olivar deserves the takedown, but not Tabitha. She shouldn't waste her time defending Ashlee, but she didn't actually do anything wrong.
"The Reeds were liars and traitors." I say, shifting my eyes to Ashlee. …
Jek,
Apparantly Lady Calibar or, more likely, her Security Chief are freaking paranoid. It should have been a simple hack but you get suckered by a data trap that emerges from nowhere. In fact you suspect a less deft... a less specific hacking tec…
I feel my eyes narrow at Malcolm’s lecture. The open invitation to compare a doomed expedition to the Unrest… Malcolm veers close to the subversive. What I am not sure of is if it is intentional or not. I should mention it to the Commandant when sh…
Xp Log
+1 Gazing into the Abyss (1.2)
+1 Hexing Mark
+1 Cutting with Bea
+1 Turning Bea on.
+1 Holding steady with Mom.
+1 Hexing Lucas
+1 Finding Gwen
+1 Getting between Gwen and Lucas demon
+1 Dispelling Lucas Demon
…
As I said, the below-stairs spaces of the palace lack the warm materials and extreme ornamentation of the part above. Down here it's something like a space station with narrow utilitarian corridors of hard angles and dark metal. Rieva is the only pr…
You hear Alchea say that the opposing ship is disengaging. I guess they won't need your cleverness after all, this time. But you learned something critical about that ship and maybe the rebel fleet in general. What was it?
"Yes, Sai, it did. T…
You get it mostly right and between your activation of the secondary stealth protocol and Allevard's piloting you escape the last missile. If the cryptic warning messages spilling across the UI for the device are any indication, though, it will nee…
There are times you just know the shot is good. This is one of those times. You can feel the whole thing slide into place like destiny. A brilliant flash in the dark, followed by two more immediately.
The last group... that's up to Allevard.
Jek,
These are point defense guns after all. They don't have any serious offensive capability against another starship. Certainly not a destroyer.
If you hit the middle group at just the right time, you'll disable three of the four, it's an extr…
Terci looks worried at your discomfort, then looks back at her pad.
"Already running, Sai. It... it authenticates correctly."
How hard is it to hack a personal transponder ID, Robynne? I mean... didn't you do it once?