Absently, he typed to all of the green misfit's comms, "Careful, your snout will get stuck that way." And then aloud, he mumbled something that sounded like: "Ouch. I'd say that hurts where it counts, but I believe I'm becoming inured to your anti-human preferences. Speaking of. Flexing my brain pretty hard right now. Does that flip any switches? Red hair and manly smarts?"
Probably he shouldn't goad her into further insults, but the words (or rather, not-words, because she both texted and spoke like her alphabet lay in orbit over a black hole somewhere) she came up with were becoming more and more entertainment than irritant. Fate didn't have much by way of amusing himself save nosing into other people's business, so...this was rather a new sensation.
Damn it. He gestured rudely at his monitors and they responded by rotating the view 180 degrees. Every monitor filled with big, ugly bastards with weapons the size of his forearm. Whatever fool had tinkered with that drone had done it in such a way that it had alerted the nastiest batch of mercs he'd seen since Sass had--the memory shorted out along with his carefully honed concentration as her newest batch of rearranged slurs hit his ear like a freight train. Reality smacked the rest of his senses and pulled him most of the way out of the Net. "Everything okay, gorgeous?"
What he didn't say was that her cursing had done him a massive favor. The majority of the mercs were remarkably unbaffled by his immersive altered reality work, and he'd been so focused on keeping it rolling and smooth he hadn't been able to catch on to the fact it had been a waste of brainpower. Backed out of the Net to a lesser degree, he could shift to more useful work. Like finding a shot that showed, along the edge of its vidscreen, what appeared to be a struggle for the ages.
There was something moving just above her. "Wrong door, green girl? Move it--you have company," he warned even as he sent out a protocol for another angle and anything electronic he could toy with to help. Nothing pinged on the units; going no tech was sometimes as effective and often more discouraging than paying for high tech service. Though, after a flicker of research rolled across his left eye he realized the ownership of the unit might have been more the deterrence.
What--or rather who--he saw when he cracked the most mobile camera's controls was enough to make his jaw drop. ALIVE, WHOLE, climbing along an unstable set of pylons along the wall near Greenie, and looking wigged out of her mind. She wobbled, her arms pinwheeled, and she dropped out of view. But that glimpse was enough to make him realize exactly who the army of darkness was looking for. One thing was certain: his charge might have been a nice side bonus, but she had nothing on the bounty currently out on Sascha Bennett. "Fuck me."
It would take him about eight more seconds to get a shot of the door and Sass's unfortunate scramble of a landing.
Probably he shouldn't goad her into further insults, but the words (or rather, not-words, because she both texted and spoke like her alphabet lay in orbit over a black hole somewhere) she came up with were becoming more and more entertainment than irritant. Fate didn't have much by way of amusing himself save nosing into other people's business, so...this was rather a new sensation.
Damn it. He gestured rudely at his monitors and they responded by rotating the view 180 degrees. Every monitor filled with big, ugly bastards with weapons the size of his forearm. Whatever fool had tinkered with that drone had done it in such a way that it had alerted the nastiest batch of mercs he'd seen since Sass had--the memory shorted out along with his carefully honed concentration as her newest batch of rearranged slurs hit his ear like a freight train. Reality smacked the rest of his senses and pulled him most of the way out of the Net. "Everything okay, gorgeous?"
What he didn't say was that her cursing had done him a massive favor. The majority of the mercs were remarkably unbaffled by his immersive altered reality work, and he'd been so focused on keeping it rolling and smooth he hadn't been able to catch on to the fact it had been a waste of brainpower. Backed out of the Net to a lesser degree, he could shift to more useful work. Like finding a shot that showed, along the edge of its vidscreen, what appeared to be a struggle for the ages.
There was something moving just above her. "Wrong door, green girl? Move it--you have company," he warned even as he sent out a protocol for another angle and anything electronic he could toy with to help. Nothing pinged on the units; going no tech was sometimes as effective and often more discouraging than paying for high tech service. Though, after a flicker of research rolled across his left eye he realized the ownership of the unit might have been more the deterrence.
What--or rather who--he saw when he cracked the most mobile camera's controls was enough to make his jaw drop. ALIVE, WHOLE, climbing along an unstable set of pylons along the wall near Greenie, and looking wigged out of her mind. She wobbled, her arms pinwheeled, and she dropped out of view. But that glimpse was enough to make him realize exactly who the army of darkness was looking for. One thing was certain: his charge might have been a nice side bonus, but she had nothing on the bounty currently out on Sascha Bennett. "Fuck me."
It would take him about eight more seconds to get a shot of the door and Sass's unfortunate scramble of a landing.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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