"...No?" Fate blinked at the letters. He rolled the copper-plated stylus under his fingers. Fine then. He'd let the drone see her, then clean up the mess. Screwing with Enforcement was just as fun. "This'll be a short-ass--Oh."
It looked as though she intended to follow along. His smile quirked in one corner, then quickly flattened, because she'd dropped the three feet. Then kept right on going.
With a flurry of eye movements and finger-jabbing, the latter gesturing in the air and rapping commands, he piggybacked on several different cameras to keep an eye on her controlled fall. A strange spiral of hops and twists straight down and then to the side, where she disappeared under a refuse-control barrel. Mostly. The heat from the waste processor obscured her body heat, so it was really just the one little thing. Since absolute obscurity was probably her goal--and a wise one, he grudgingly admitted, for if she could hide from him, she was hidden from likely everybody except psionics and critters bred for the hunt--and since she initiated contact once more, Fate decided to roll with it. He tightened the comm focus to the tablet she'd used.
>>Sup, yourself.
>>I can see your toes.
>>In case that's important.
The end of the stylus was in his mouth again and he couldn't remember how it'd gotten there. Why would she encourage him? If she was trying to dodge him, she wouldn't. He chewed and pondered, watching the motionless bin on the screen.
To his right, the drone hadn't moved.
>>Drone didn't see you.
>>Gold star.
She'd taken him seriously, maybe, at least on the threat to her person. Just didn't take orders. That could be tricky, but it wasn't a surprise. She wasn't one of the contractors under his wing, wouldn't trust him worth piss, and she certainly hadn't asked for his help. Keen on hiding and skulking about the underbelly of Osiris told him she knew a bit about survival, maybe had contacts of her own. He started a background check to find out.
Fate grimaced at an explosion of text. He'd have to break into the records later. Right now...
>>You were like a little green Earth monkey.
>>Playing hide and seek?
Hiding from the kind of roughs who put creds on and lasers through heads was not a game, not really. Especially not a game of "I tell you this and instead you do that other thing that is probably a monumentally stupid idea". Suddenly he smiled and straightened in his chair, the coil of wire jacked into the side of his neck tumbling off its arm. Aw, hells. He hadn't had a real challenge in what, a week?
>>I will help.
Fate never asked for permission. It gave people a chance to say no. Not that she hadn't already. Aaaand he was all-out grinning again. Sheer glee at a chance to break some laws of his own volition, not at someone else's behest. Or because he'd plotted a way out using the dark spots his visual piggybacking couldn't see. Or...anticipation.
At some point, he was going to have to stop simply bothering the crap out of her. The notion made him chuckle. "Now what? Oh, introductions. Right."
>>Name's Fate.
>>If that's too hard to type, you can go with F.
>>Not everyone's this skilled with a keyboard.
It looked as though she intended to follow along. His smile quirked in one corner, then quickly flattened, because she'd dropped the three feet. Then kept right on going.
With a flurry of eye movements and finger-jabbing, the latter gesturing in the air and rapping commands, he piggybacked on several different cameras to keep an eye on her controlled fall. A strange spiral of hops and twists straight down and then to the side, where she disappeared under a refuse-control barrel. Mostly. The heat from the waste processor obscured her body heat, so it was really just the one little thing. Since absolute obscurity was probably her goal--and a wise one, he grudgingly admitted, for if she could hide from him, she was hidden from likely everybody except psionics and critters bred for the hunt--and since she initiated contact once more, Fate decided to roll with it. He tightened the comm focus to the tablet she'd used.
>>Sup, yourself.
>>I can see your toes.
>>In case that's important.
The end of the stylus was in his mouth again and he couldn't remember how it'd gotten there. Why would she encourage him? If she was trying to dodge him, she wouldn't. He chewed and pondered, watching the motionless bin on the screen.
To his right, the drone hadn't moved.
>>Drone didn't see you.
>>Gold star.
She'd taken him seriously, maybe, at least on the threat to her person. Just didn't take orders. That could be tricky, but it wasn't a surprise. She wasn't one of the contractors under his wing, wouldn't trust him worth piss, and she certainly hadn't asked for his help. Keen on hiding and skulking about the underbelly of Osiris told him she knew a bit about survival, maybe had contacts of her own. He started a background check to find out.
Fate grimaced at an explosion of text. He'd have to break into the records later. Right now...
>>You were like a little green Earth monkey.
>>Playing hide and seek?
Hiding from the kind of roughs who put creds on and lasers through heads was not a game, not really. Especially not a game of "I tell you this and instead you do that other thing that is probably a monumentally stupid idea". Suddenly he smiled and straightened in his chair, the coil of wire jacked into the side of his neck tumbling off its arm. Aw, hells. He hadn't had a real challenge in what, a week?
>>I will help.
Fate never asked for permission. It gave people a chance to say no. Not that she hadn't already. Aaaand he was all-out grinning again. Sheer glee at a chance to break some laws of his own volition, not at someone else's behest. Or because he'd plotted a way out using the dark spots his visual piggybacking couldn't see. Or...anticipation.
At some point, he was going to have to stop simply bothering the crap out of her. The notion made him chuckle. "Now what? Oh, introductions. Right."
>>Name's Fate.
>>If that's too hard to type, you can go with F.
>>Not everyone's this skilled with a keyboard.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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