Being already on high alert, having her tablet and bracelet and earpiece all go off at once was unwelcome. It set her teeth all on edge, and she yanked the obnoxiously chiming hunk of metal out of one delicately pointed ear as she pulled her tablet out of her back pocket. Kreska did not usually get pinged like that unless Grilka decided there was an emergency, and ey was surprisingly good about not abusing the definition of the word.
She narrowed her eyes at the messages she was getting – not from Grilka, no name or traceable information. That wasn't suspicious at all.
Toots. For fuck's sake. Presumably that was intended as a noun.
This had a familiar tone, this sort of quickly, there's no time, this come with me if you want to live tone. Not familiar to most people, but familiar to her, a feint or a bluff that ended with her exactly where someone wanted her. They weren't necessarily lying, but that didn't mean they had her safety at heart. There was a saying somewhere, she was sure, about being saved from a bounty by a slaver.
Since the advice she was being fed was theoretically valid based on her own knowledge, that left her with two confirmable facts: someone was watching her, and they could get in touch at will. Tricky tricky.
☠» lol no
It was hard to be articulate one-handed. She turned the volume down on her earpiece before putting it back in, shoved her tablet back in her pocket and got to strategizing. Sort of.
If she was being watched anyway, there was no point staying out of view of security cameras. Too many squatters around here for them to bother throwing up alarms for unauthorized access. Now, if someone was watching her with the intent of shooting her in the face – which would not be unheard of – then that was another problem altogether.
One that she would solve by falling and catching the pipe with her good hand, falling to one lower, repeating the process, until she was low enough to jump off and to the floor without breaking both her legs. And then, with security cameras to act as her witness, she half-slid and half-rolled beneath something tank-like that looked important.
Maybe it was part of the life support system. Maybe it was fuel storage. Maybe it was sewage. She wasn't part of the maintenance crew, so she didn't know what the fuck. It looked like something a person wouldn't want to risk shooting at. Or would get in great-big trouble for shooting at. There wasn't supposed to be enough room underneath it for a person, but as persons went, she was on the lower end of the Terran bell curve.
On her stomach on the floor like a child hiding beneath their bed, she pulled out her tablet again
☠» sup
She narrowed her eyes at the messages she was getting – not from Grilka, no name or traceable information. That wasn't suspicious at all.
Toots. For fuck's sake. Presumably that was intended as a noun.
This had a familiar tone, this sort of quickly, there's no time, this come with me if you want to live tone. Not familiar to most people, but familiar to her, a feint or a bluff that ended with her exactly where someone wanted her. They weren't necessarily lying, but that didn't mean they had her safety at heart. There was a saying somewhere, she was sure, about being saved from a bounty by a slaver.
Since the advice she was being fed was theoretically valid based on her own knowledge, that left her with two confirmable facts: someone was watching her, and they could get in touch at will. Tricky tricky.
☠» lol no
It was hard to be articulate one-handed. She turned the volume down on her earpiece before putting it back in, shoved her tablet back in her pocket and got to strategizing. Sort of.
If she was being watched anyway, there was no point staying out of view of security cameras. Too many squatters around here for them to bother throwing up alarms for unauthorized access. Now, if someone was watching her with the intent of shooting her in the face – which would not be unheard of – then that was another problem altogether.
One that she would solve by falling and catching the pipe with her good hand, falling to one lower, repeating the process, until she was low enough to jump off and to the floor without breaking both her legs. And then, with security cameras to act as her witness, she half-slid and half-rolled beneath something tank-like that looked important.
Maybe it was part of the life support system. Maybe it was fuel storage. Maybe it was sewage. She wasn't part of the maintenance crew, so she didn't know what the fuck. It looked like something a person wouldn't want to risk shooting at. Or would get in great-big trouble for shooting at. There wasn't supposed to be enough room underneath it for a person, but as persons went, she was on the lower end of the Terran bell curve.
On her stomach on the floor like a child hiding beneath their bed, she pulled out her tablet again
☠» sup
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