Fate misunderstood Kreska's concern, being that his own was more of the "protect thyself" variety rather than the "I'm invading someone's brainspace" sort.
"Droid," he assured her, "Don't worry, I'm sending him back and no one will notice he's missing."
He chuckled as a pissed off Jobari got up close and personal with the tiny camera. "It is not creepy if it's research."
"I know a lot of things people aren't supposed to know. The question is, does your snakey overlord already know it." Fate started compiling his folder of please-be-gentle-I-don't-get-out-much-anti-Krotazi secrets and paused as the files flickered across his retina. Research. Actually...that probably made it sound worse. He shrugged, sending cords and dreads tumbling over his shoulders. "Researching the room, not the two of you stripping down. I didn't see any of that. Unfortunately. Hey, maybe you could--"
Luckily he was stopped from finishing that sentence by a beeping sound that had him changing several monitor perspectives in a complicated series of blinks. Perimeter alert. Company inbound. "Oh. Darn."
The mining bots had gone back to work as he'd planned, attempting to repair the hole with minimal noise. Only someone had heard. He thumbed through the droid's controls and set it to defense mode--dapper waiter-slash-baggage handler or no, the hunk of metal had a bit of heft to him, and he'd need it to obscure the hole.
--
"Looks like sludge," Sascha said with a grimace. "Smells like...well. It's all yours."
She wasn't the type to shun free food, especially when she was in a bind as seemed to be the case so often these days, but something that looked like it might be able to get up and ooze itself out of the bowl for a nice afternoon walk was a meal she didn't want crawling around in her stomach, much less any other part of her digestive tract. "Burger, though. Mine."
She dug in after another swig of rum, setting the bottle down only to swipe open the bag of gear. First thing on top was a pair of cargo pants--MUCH more her style than anything skin tight. She didn't investigate any further, just shoved half the buger between her teeth and headed toward the nearest tall plant to strip down.
Literal like tentacles, she considered as she wiggled into pants destined to hold all manner of tech gadgets she wasn't able to secure inside the catsuit. Swallowing another bite of burger Sascha asked, "That is a joke, yes? Tentacles? I don't know you well enough to judge, and the danger I'm most familiar with is more from netjockeys and laser fire as opposed to overly-cozy alien appendages."
Sure, there were things in dark places. But it wasn't like they were...
...her teeth clenched around the next bite of burger, her fingers frozen around the button of her pants as a knock came from the wall. Because yeah, they kind of WERE in one of those dark places, weren't they? She just hadn't been paying attention to the ins and outs of the station while on the run from the hunters and corporate guns.
And Kreska's suddenly colorful swearing didn't exactly inspire a girl with sudden confidence.
--
Figuring on sending a warning that things might get noisy topside, Fate tapped to Sascha's wristcomp:
>>Sass.
>>Not now.
>>Don't nurse the rum, yeah?
Though he didn't have her on comms, he could hear her faint swearing through Kreska's. "Don't you dare tell me I don't have enough time to drink myself blind because you screwed up!"
>>Cards, this is never going to be my day, is it?
>>We've got our own problems. Whatever you did, fix it.
"Problems?" A reddish eyebrow shot upward as he checked some cameras and murmured to himself. "No, they're secure down there."
>>Problems? Do tell.
No answer, save some less than creative cursing from Sascha's companion.
>>I can cover this with both hands behind my back so you better spill.
No answer, save a curious thundering of metal.
He both typed and spoke to try to get a grasp of whatever situation all of his monitoring had obviously missed, each scenario conjured by his brain more terrifying than the last. "One of you better answer me. Use your words, ladies."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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