For someone so purportedly "not nice", he was being quite kind. It made her all the more determined to reclaim some space once they got back to the bed, which she did by scrambling up on the linens and pulling a sheet around her like she was working on fashioning a dress. Wouldn't do to have him get bored of the assistance--too easy to label someone who needed to lean on another as "useless", in her experience.
Prancing around with her bits out, indeed. Alex snorted, her amused retort coming out in a drowsy drawl. "Duly...noted. But ritualized dancing around the bridge will have to wait until after I get a nap--THEN it's show time."
While it was true the rinse had done an effective job of restoration--at least mentally--he needn't have worried. For one, sticking to the route he'd outlined would be more difficult than he'd seemed to expect; he might have the suit for guidance, but she'd been so out of it she could barely remember the directions he'd given, let alone the path he'd carried her through. For another, she was exhausted, so she simply acknowledged his request with a nod. The bed might lack a coverlet but still had sheets, and she had every intention of taking advantage of a clean, cool place to sleep and no one oppressively waiting to rip her from her dreams and hauling her away to ask questions the hard way.
Or that had been her intent, until he started handing her tech.
"Schematics?" she visibly brightened, straightening from the sagged position she'd adopted on the edge of the mattress. Suddenly muddled directions didn't matter. Thoughts of rest warred with her ever-present curiosity, the latter rejuvenated simply from the touch of the device in her hands. "Thaaaank you. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on all her parts," she said and paused while perusing the tech, without seeming to realize how that might sound. After a moment she added, "Especially the ones that make the ship do that sideways jump thing. And the ones that might make it explode. Mmm...yeah, probably all..."
Alex promptly got lost in the screen, nodding absently as he said something about communications and then headed for the door. Her nose wrinkled when she lifted her head long enough to see he'd left with his coat slung over his arm, and she rubbed the freckles over the bridge of her nose once the door had sealed. "I hope you're taking that somewhere to get decontaminated!"
With a roll of her shoulders, the comm went under her pillow and one liquid packet was torn open, its contents swallowed without pause; the other two lay untouched by her side. She slid to prone on the bed. The tablet sat propped on her stomach where she could get a good angle on the screen.
"Okay. Then this direction would be..." Alex played with the device until she'd identified a few places that would be likely to house broken things, but exhaustion was a slippery thing. She wasn't sure when she dozed off, nor how long she was out, but when she came to the datapad lay off to one side on the bed with its screen off. So it had to have been longer than 5 of so minutes; without interaction it'd slipped into a power-saving mode.
She sat up, testing her threshold for pain. Pleased, then, she grinned that the bulk of it had settled down into a deep ache that fitted her bones. Anything was better than the jarring stabs of nerve endings that had lambasted her all at once. Of course no pain at all would be preferable, but given more time to heal aboard Captain Fenris's ship, the aftereffects of systematic torture would fade in time. She hoped.
Feeling positive with that thought and the tech once more tucked into her palm, Alex carelessly bounced off the mattress. A cringe tensed her entire body as her heels sent a jolt straight up her spine, but the pain passed--a reminder to explore her new home slooooowly.
More reminders would be forthcoming. Slow and careful were not states of being one tiny woman with a innately curious mind and a penchant for tinkering was all that familiar with.
Alex looked about. The room was as barren as before, the promised clothes not in sight, so she either hadn't been out that long or it was taking quite a while for a man who really had no need for clothes at all to find something suitable for a guest who was half or less his size. A grin crossed her lips.
"As long as one might expect, really," she murmured as she tabbed the screen on the schematics back on. "He's probably gotta have something made; 'less he's got some from prior salvage."
Her fingers wrapped around the two-way comm and with a laugh she decided it was better not to ask. Who knew why he'd have fished women's clothing out of a ship's corpse--but if he wasn't going to judge her wandering about nude, she probably had no room to question kinks.
Probably.
Wrapping the cool top sheet around her torso and waist, Alex knotted the fabric firmly between her breasts. She turned on the datapad and with her nose practically buried in its screen shuffled out the door in her toga.
Prancing around with her bits out, indeed. Alex snorted, her amused retort coming out in a drowsy drawl. "Duly...noted. But ritualized dancing around the bridge will have to wait until after I get a nap--THEN it's show time."
While it was true the rinse had done an effective job of restoration--at least mentally--he needn't have worried. For one, sticking to the route he'd outlined would be more difficult than he'd seemed to expect; he might have the suit for guidance, but she'd been so out of it she could barely remember the directions he'd given, let alone the path he'd carried her through. For another, she was exhausted, so she simply acknowledged his request with a nod. The bed might lack a coverlet but still had sheets, and she had every intention of taking advantage of a clean, cool place to sleep and no one oppressively waiting to rip her from her dreams and hauling her away to ask questions the hard way.
Or that had been her intent, until he started handing her tech.
"Schematics?" she visibly brightened, straightening from the sagged position she'd adopted on the edge of the mattress. Suddenly muddled directions didn't matter. Thoughts of rest warred with her ever-present curiosity, the latter rejuvenated simply from the touch of the device in her hands. "Thaaaank you. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on all her parts," she said and paused while perusing the tech, without seeming to realize how that might sound. After a moment she added, "Especially the ones that make the ship do that sideways jump thing. And the ones that might make it explode. Mmm...yeah, probably all..."
Alex promptly got lost in the screen, nodding absently as he said something about communications and then headed for the door. Her nose wrinkled when she lifted her head long enough to see he'd left with his coat slung over his arm, and she rubbed the freckles over the bridge of her nose once the door had sealed. "I hope you're taking that somewhere to get decontaminated!"
With a roll of her shoulders, the comm went under her pillow and one liquid packet was torn open, its contents swallowed without pause; the other two lay untouched by her side. She slid to prone on the bed. The tablet sat propped on her stomach where she could get a good angle on the screen.
"Okay. Then this direction would be..." Alex played with the device until she'd identified a few places that would be likely to house broken things, but exhaustion was a slippery thing. She wasn't sure when she dozed off, nor how long she was out, but when she came to the datapad lay off to one side on the bed with its screen off. So it had to have been longer than 5 of so minutes; without interaction it'd slipped into a power-saving mode.
She sat up, testing her threshold for pain. Pleased, then, she grinned that the bulk of it had settled down into a deep ache that fitted her bones. Anything was better than the jarring stabs of nerve endings that had lambasted her all at once. Of course no pain at all would be preferable, but given more time to heal aboard Captain Fenris's ship, the aftereffects of systematic torture would fade in time. She hoped.
Feeling positive with that thought and the tech once more tucked into her palm, Alex carelessly bounced off the mattress. A cringe tensed her entire body as her heels sent a jolt straight up her spine, but the pain passed--a reminder to explore her new home slooooowly.
More reminders would be forthcoming. Slow and careful were not states of being one tiny woman with a innately curious mind and a penchant for tinkering was all that familiar with.
Alex looked about. The room was as barren as before, the promised clothes not in sight, so she either hadn't been out that long or it was taking quite a while for a man who really had no need for clothes at all to find something suitable for a guest who was half or less his size. A grin crossed her lips.
"As long as one might expect, really," she murmured as she tabbed the screen on the schematics back on. "He's probably gotta have something made; 'less he's got some from prior salvage."
Her fingers wrapped around the two-way comm and with a laugh she decided it was better not to ask. Who knew why he'd have fished women's clothing out of a ship's corpse--but if he wasn't going to judge her wandering about nude, she probably had no room to question kinks.
Probably.
Wrapping the cool top sheet around her torso and waist, Alex knotted the fabric firmly between her breasts. She turned on the datapad and with her nose practically buried in its screen shuffled out the door in her toga.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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