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“So you know you can trust your friend, under normal circumstances, but what if he was given Compel like I was, how would you tell?”
“I didn’t think of that. I know he didn’t use it on me because he just used the bomb. I guess he figured it would be more effective that way with me, but for Zane. I’m not sure.”
“Would you be willing to kill your friend if it came to it?”
“I don’t want to do that, Compel is just a drug, and once it leaves the system the person just has a bad headache for a few days. There wouldn’t be any reason to kill him.”
“You said I was just a part of the test group. What if they made it stronger, or last longer. What then?”
“I don’t know. I know we need supplies, and you aren’t going to leave me for dead some place till I am ready to get by on my own. Which should be soon, but we still need supplies before then. Zane is the only other person I can contact right now for help.”
“What about the other two Black Raiders, can’t you contact them?”
“Yes I could, if they were able to be contacted. They went off the grid together on some frontier world years ago. Said they didn’t want to be mixed up with all the nonsense any more. They never said which planet they went to, but knowing them, they went to Raspiel. It’s all they ever talked about. Jack wanted to start up a small town, and run a general goods store, Hanna wanted to study all the exotic life. There was always something new coming off Raspiel for mages to get excited about.”
“She’s a mage!? I never knew Earth forces had any mages.”
“Hanna kept it secret till the Black Raid happened. Once it started, none of us cared, all we knew is we had a mage on our side. She kept us all alive that day.”
“Then why don’t we head there, and see about them first before we try something as fool hearty as running into our enemy’s base.”
“Can’t, it’s on the far edge of Guild territory. We don’t have the supplies to make it that far. Plus this is a stolen Guild ship.”
Kat sighs, “Right.”
“I have a plan, that will get us safely in and out of Tarus. So just hear me out.”
Gravan spends the next few minutes going over everything he has been thinking up. As Kat listens to it, it almost makes sense. She works through all the worse scenarios in her head, and it all seems like it might work. If everything goes right.
“That plan… is brilliant. It has a few holes in it though.”
“I know. We have to trust Zane a bit for it to work but from there - if he does try to betray us - we have a little bit of wiggle room.”
“Ten minutes isn’t a lot of wiggle room.”
“It’s enough for us to get the supplies we need and head to Raspiel.”
“I guess.” Kat gazes into his eyes with a smile, losing herself for a moment. She could get used to getting lost in those eyes.
He smiles in return, “You alright?”
She snaps back to her senses, “I’m fine. Whisper, did you get the whole plan down?”
“I did, and it just might work.”
Gravan laughs, “That is the nicest thing you have said to me since I woke up.”
“It was not to you flesh puppet, your meat processor just came up with something resembling thought. That is what I was acknowledging.”
He looks to Kat pointing at the ceiling, “She always like this?”
Kat laughs, “Yes, but that was actually polite. She might like you.”
“I can hear both of you talking still, you know that don’t you meat bags.”
Fury yawns awake, “I like everyone.”
…
“This plan was a really stupid idea, I hope you know that.” Kat screams over blaster and live ammunition ricocheting around her.
“How is this my fault, you’re the one that chose which location to go to, which just so happens to be a barracks.” Gravan retorts.
She had chose this spot because when she was the security chief for Mallory it was only an extra supply dump. This was a restocking point before reaching the secret
“So you know you can trust your friend, under normal circumstances, but what if he was given Compel like I was, how would you tell?”
“I didn’t think of that. I know he didn’t use it on me because he just used the bomb. I guess he figured it would be more effective that way with me, but for Zane. I’m not sure.”
“Would you be willing to kill your friend if it came to it?”
“I don’t want to do that, Compel is just a drug, and once it leaves the system the person just has a bad headache for a few days. There wouldn’t be any reason to kill him.”
“You said I was just a part of the test group. What if they made it stronger, or last longer. What then?”
“I don’t know. I know we need supplies, and you aren’t going to leave me for dead some place till I am ready to get by on my own. Which should be soon, but we still need supplies before then. Zane is the only other person I can contact right now for help.”
“What about the other two Black Raiders, can’t you contact them?”
“Yes I could, if they were able to be contacted. They went off the grid together on some frontier world years ago. Said they didn’t want to be mixed up with all the nonsense any more. They never said which planet they went to, but knowing them, they went to Raspiel. It’s all they ever talked about. Jack wanted to start up a small town, and run a general goods store, Hanna wanted to study all the exotic life. There was always something new coming off Raspiel for mages to get excited about.”
“She’s a mage!? I never knew Earth forces had any mages.”
“Hanna kept it secret till the Black Raid happened. Once it started, none of us cared, all we knew is we had a mage on our side. She kept us all alive that day.”
“Then why don’t we head there, and see about them first before we try something as fool hearty as running into our enemy’s base.”
“Can’t, it’s on the far edge of Guild territory. We don’t have the supplies to make it that far. Plus this is a stolen Guild ship.”
Kat sighs, “Right.”
“I have a plan, that will get us safely in and out of Tarus. So just hear me out.”
Gravan spends the next few minutes going over everything he has been thinking up. As Kat listens to it, it almost makes sense. She works through all the worse scenarios in her head, and it all seems like it might work. If everything goes right.
“That plan… is brilliant. It has a few holes in it though.”
“I know. We have to trust Zane a bit for it to work but from there - if he does try to betray us - we have a little bit of wiggle room.”
“Ten minutes isn’t a lot of wiggle room.”
“It’s enough for us to get the supplies we need and head to Raspiel.”
“I guess.” Kat gazes into his eyes with a smile, losing herself for a moment. She could get used to getting lost in those eyes.
He smiles in return, “You alright?”
She snaps back to her senses, “I’m fine. Whisper, did you get the whole plan down?”
“I did, and it just might work.”
Gravan laughs, “That is the nicest thing you have said to me since I woke up.”
“It was not to you flesh puppet, your meat processor just came up with something resembling thought. That is what I was acknowledging.”
He looks to Kat pointing at the ceiling, “She always like this?”
Kat laughs, “Yes, but that was actually polite. She might like you.”
“I can hear both of you talking still, you know that don’t you meat bags.”
Fury yawns awake, “I like everyone.”
…
“This plan was a really stupid idea, I hope you know that.” Kat screams over blaster and live ammunition ricocheting around her.
“How is this my fault, you’re the one that chose which location to go to, which just so happens to be a barracks.” Gravan retorts.
She had chose this spot because when she was the security chief for Mallory it was only an extra supply dump. This was a restocking point before reaching the secret
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