Sascha ducked behind the greenery, cargo pants blessedly over her hips, top missing and the quarter of a burger clenched between her front teeth yanked out in a hurry. Not exactly the most flattering introduction but then neither was winding one's tail around an acquaintance like she was to be a next meal exactly a polite greeting. In her albeit uneducated opinion as far as snake people went these days. Eyes cracked through with emerald streaks widened comically.
Thinking she hadn't yet been noticed, Sascha slid the burger's remains to the ground and with an inward sigh wrapped the cat suit hideously around her breasts. Not even time to shred the damn thing. Should've grabbed more from the fraggin' pack.
Except she had been noticed, and the enormous thing was talking about her like she wasn't standing right there. Sascha rolled her eyes. Not scary. Yep. That was--"Eep!" She peered around the plant to find the newcomer far higher aloft than she'd expected, and suddenly much, much closer. It was only by fortune of a sturdy fern at her back that she didn't tumble backward and land flat on her ass.
"Oh nooo, they were just in the neighborhood, I'm sure," Sascha was quick to interrupt, not sure if it was wise when she wasn't being directly addressed, nor if it was a good thing her hunters had been removed at all, given the imposing creature that had taken their place and now held Kreska in its tentacles. Would she be bait, now? Owe in some way for this unorthodox rescue? When wasn't she owing her life to someone else in one way or another? "People have much better things to do than hunt me down."
Like putting my head on a stake and mounting it on the front of a monstrous truck, for example.
--
The sibilant words came easily over the audio link that remained open, but the only glimpse he had was a terrifying flicker of tentacles that shot into view and then receded. He hadn't considered that the bounty hunters and corporate flacks had been eaten. Distracted into leaving as planned, he'd have taken all the credit for as they left his sights. But EATEN? He felt a little queasy at the prospect and couldn't discern without seeing the Krotazi's features whether or not xe was joking.
"Not that I would regardless," he said with his fingers stabbing into keys in a desperate flurry.
Fate was frantically trying to get through to the women he'd deemed himself protector of, but he suspected Sascha had turned off her comm screen and knew Kreska was now just flat out ignoring him. Not that he blamed her. If he was trapped in a room with...that...he'd be pretty single focused too.
"Do not let her eat and/or poison Sass. You hear me, Kreska?"
It was probably the only time he used a person's actual name: in moments of actual concern. He wasn't anywhere near their hideout so for the moment there was no threat of tentacles invading his private spaces. Fate swallowed hard at the double meaning and closed his eyes for a moment.
"I will program horrible things onto all of your tech forever."
Fate's best course of action, when there seemed to be no course of action and most especially when his current assortment of droids were unable to fit through certain holes, was to continue acting as though everything was fine. And so he keyed back into the mining drones, setting them to lower the piece of ceiling back into place. At least if that was intact, HE'D be fine...not that it brought him any closer to figuring out what to do for the imperiled ladies.
"Every time you play music you'll be interrupted by unrelated adverts of varying and obnoxious volumes, see if I won't!"
In his effort to recover some ground and cover his tracks, Fate had forgotten an important fact: the mining droids didn't exactly do their job...quietly.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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