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Authors: Saxon Andrew
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tell him I’ll pay him to be trained.” Leo’s eyes narrowed. “Don’t get sanctimonious on me, Leo. If I’m going to have to go away for a time, as you say, I am going to use the time to learn how to survive in a universe filled with Spiders!”
“I don’t know if he’d agree to do it.”
“Leave that up to me. I want to know how to contact him.”
Leo sighed, “I’ll give you his contact code once we get you a new communicator.”
“Where are we going to get that?”
“On Luminus. Two ships are cheaper than one.”
“You don’t have a ship?”
“No, I was forced to abandon it.”
“Pray tell what caused you to do that?”
“Fifty blasters blowing it apart in orbit.”
“How did you escape that?”
“I wasn’t on it at the time. However, my brother was.”
“Better buy a better ship!”
“I can now afford to do so.”
“I’ll pay for both as long as you give me the contact code.”
Leo rolled his eyes and then started shaking his head, “I had to undergo a lot of changes physically in order to have some of the talents I possess, Ana. I can tell you that it was extremely painful to do it. Are you willing to suffer through being trained?”
Ana’s eyebrows came together, “More than you know!”
“I’m booking us on a Starliner to Luminus tonight and we’ll be leaving in six hours. In the meantime, you and I are going shopping.”
“Shopping?”
“Victoria would never go out looking like this. We have some work to do.”
“What kind of work?”
“I know you’re basically a modest person but you’re going to have to get over that quickly. Victoria was proud of her appearance and didn’t mind revealing it.”
“I don’t know if I…”
“You can and you will! Just play the role of Victoria and you can deal with it. It’ll get easier over time. Just remember three things; smile, flirt, and laugh. Let’s go shopping. For the next two weeks, we’re going to have to use my bank-card until yours is active. Just look at me with a smile and say, ‘Jerry, please handle this.’”
“Jerry?”
“He was one of Victoria’s servants.”
“Oh geeeezzz. Lead the way.”
Chapter Four
L eo sat in the rear of first class and watched the men seated around Ana making a fool of themselves. The one-piece black and gold body suit she was wearing was quite revealing, especially at the plunging neck line. Ana nearly called the whole thing off when they went shopping until she noticed several men stop in the store and gawk at her. She looked at one of them and said sternly, “Is something the matter?”
The man stammered, “N…no! You are incredibly beautiful. I was wondering if you might share a dinner with me tonight.”
Ana was shocked at the statement and pulled it off like a champ. She walked over to him and leaned against his arm as she smiled, coyly, “I’m sorry. I’m flying out in a few hours.” She batted her eyes teasing, “Maybe another time?”
The man nearly broke his arm pulling a business card out of his pouch and hand it to her, “Please, call me!”
“You know I will.” The man walked off and she glanced at Leo. He smiled and she went back to the sales woman and continued purchasing expensive clothes. She even asked that several items she had rejected earlier be brought back out. He wondered at the sudden change and wished he knew what was going on in her mind. She was…different.
He sat back and looked out of the viewport at the twenty mile wide filament the Starliner was traveling. No one really understood why the filaments existed. Every star had at least one filament that connected it to another star. One side of the filament moved away from the star and the other side moved toward it. The speed of every filament varied but all of them moved at superlight speeds. The invention of the stardrive field, which allowed ships to leave normal space and go into, what
“I don’t know if he’d agree to do it.”
“Leave that up to me. I want to know how to contact him.”
Leo sighed, “I’ll give you his contact code once we get you a new communicator.”
“Where are we going to get that?”
“On Luminus. Two ships are cheaper than one.”
“You don’t have a ship?”
“No, I was forced to abandon it.”
“Pray tell what caused you to do that?”
“Fifty blasters blowing it apart in orbit.”
“How did you escape that?”
“I wasn’t on it at the time. However, my brother was.”
“Better buy a better ship!”
“I can now afford to do so.”
“I’ll pay for both as long as you give me the contact code.”
Leo rolled his eyes and then started shaking his head, “I had to undergo a lot of changes physically in order to have some of the talents I possess, Ana. I can tell you that it was extremely painful to do it. Are you willing to suffer through being trained?”
Ana’s eyebrows came together, “More than you know!”
“I’m booking us on a Starliner to Luminus tonight and we’ll be leaving in six hours. In the meantime, you and I are going shopping.”
“Shopping?”
“Victoria would never go out looking like this. We have some work to do.”
“What kind of work?”
“I know you’re basically a modest person but you’re going to have to get over that quickly. Victoria was proud of her appearance and didn’t mind revealing it.”
“I don’t know if I…”
“You can and you will! Just play the role of Victoria and you can deal with it. It’ll get easier over time. Just remember three things; smile, flirt, and laugh. Let’s go shopping. For the next two weeks, we’re going to have to use my bank-card until yours is active. Just look at me with a smile and say, ‘Jerry, please handle this.’”
“Jerry?”
“He was one of Victoria’s servants.”
“Oh geeeezzz. Lead the way.”
Chapter Four
L eo sat in the rear of first class and watched the men seated around Ana making a fool of themselves. The one-piece black and gold body suit she was wearing was quite revealing, especially at the plunging neck line. Ana nearly called the whole thing off when they went shopping until she noticed several men stop in the store and gawk at her. She looked at one of them and said sternly, “Is something the matter?”
The man stammered, “N…no! You are incredibly beautiful. I was wondering if you might share a dinner with me tonight.”
Ana was shocked at the statement and pulled it off like a champ. She walked over to him and leaned against his arm as she smiled, coyly, “I’m sorry. I’m flying out in a few hours.” She batted her eyes teasing, “Maybe another time?”
The man nearly broke his arm pulling a business card out of his pouch and hand it to her, “Please, call me!”
“You know I will.” The man walked off and she glanced at Leo. He smiled and she went back to the sales woman and continued purchasing expensive clothes. She even asked that several items she had rejected earlier be brought back out. He wondered at the sudden change and wished he knew what was going on in her mind. She was…different.
He sat back and looked out of the viewport at the twenty mile wide filament the Starliner was traveling. No one really understood why the filaments existed. Every star had at least one filament that connected it to another star. One side of the filament moved away from the star and the other side moved toward it. The speed of every filament varied but all of them moved at superlight speeds. The invention of the stardrive field, which allowed ships to leave normal space and go into, what
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