Sascha bit her tongue as she found herself lifted and seated on the ambassador. Tentacles and coils and everything she'd been running from, really--but not. Fate hadn't pulled her out. Kreska wasn't stopping it. And none of them were stopping her from accepting a drink and guzzling from the bottle like it was a glass of homebrew instead of a fine meant-to-be-savored delicacy. Liquid courage was always nice. A bit of fire running through her veins, even if it didn't start to touch her until she'd hit near the bottom of the bottle. But she needed it. After running, always running, this was nice.
She sucked in a deep breath after swallowing the fiery liquid and sent Kreska a less shaky thumbs up. Despite the fact it seemed rude, somehow, to be sitting on someone, regardless of what that someone was or what ey said by way of invitation, it really did feel like she could relax, finally. No danger here.
"Outside the law is nice," she agreed carefully. Outside the law meant no extra worries about Heat for data stolen, data corrupted, data retrieved. Outside the law meant she could do her job and get a legal wage, rather than scraps. "But usually when you're outside one set of rules, there's another to take its place."
Indeed, it seemed there was, as the Krotazi explained one such set of rules to her. It seemed very similar to the set she followed with Fate. Do job. Get paid. Except Grilka's payments were in deeds rather than coins. "Money is handy to have about, though." She'd yet to see a situation not diffused at some level by money changing hands. Case in point: freedom of a biological AI. Case in point: her very large bounty. But if someone else were behind the money.........as a favor......Sascha's eyebrows went up. And then they quickly shot back down as accidents were mentioned. "What sort of favors are very...karma heavy ones?"
Whatever they might have been, they were probably too rich for her blood. And if such a favor didn't work out? The absolute last thing she needed was to be in debt to a friend--make that "friend", right? The Venusian blend was rather strong this time. She took another swig and smiled unevenly. Friend. She didn't keep many of those. But a Krotazi seemed eminently capable of handling xyrself.--on top of running from the galaxy.
She tried to catch a glimpse of the datapad for a hint as to what xe might be sending Fate, even to see if he'd sent something that would tell her just how much she could tell the alien. When nothing was forthcoming, she chewed on the inside of her cheek, then took another drink to finish the bottle.
"I'm good at sneaky things," came the unfiltered response. "Datathieving, inside job stuff not the things you can find on the regular Net, you know? Data rewriting, breaking and entering, security hacking, security making, running..."
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Fate tried not to shudder as Grilka mentioned wanting him. As kinky as he could be, as many breasts as he enjoyed his holograms having, he couldn't see himself suspended in those tentacles and having a good time of it. Especially with the way he'd mucked things up.
But damn if he'd let Sascha pay for his mistakes.
She risked enough just being outside, out THERE, in the world, on a daily basis. No, he'd watched Sascha's face, when he'd managed to catch glimpses of it from the swinging tablet, go from frightened to more and more comfortably reasonable as the conversation went on, and he left messages on her wristcomp for her to STOP NOW STOP despite the fact she wasn't even looking at it. Blanching at the mention of keeping someone around because they were good at orgasms, he typed,
>>She's not the one you want.
Just as Sascha herself responded with horrifying litany of law-breaking admissions that, if recorded, were certain to be used against her to fuel her ever-growing budget for the ever-growing assortment of bounty hunters. And then he realized she'd downed the entire bottle of rum.
"Fuck." He said aloud, and slammed a fist on his desk. "FUCK."
She wouldn't go down for this. But to get her out--how much was it going to cost him?
>>I can't come to you.
>>So you'll have to come get me.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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