Monthly Archive: August 2022

Raina turns from the window, faces Lia directly. “It’s almost as if you want want me to exercise the contractual clauses…” She returns Lia’s eyebrow with a quizzical pair of her own.  

“Yes, and yet you aren’t here.”  

“You chose to run off to restricted space with Captain Karmen knowing it would mean that you wouldn’t be able to keep your contractual commitments with me.   “You must also expect that I’ll be...

“Yours of course, this is your subconscious trying to warn you.”  

“I have begun. “A long time ago. “That was intended as a rhetorical introductory phrase dramatically appropriate to the setting.” (Is that how Raina really talks, or something Lia’s  dream-brain just made up, I...

It seems likely that’s what she’s wearing if that’s what she wishes. Raina doesn’t appear to be looking at anything specific, she’s just taking in the view of the station, stars and planet.  ...

Raina is wearing the same outfit that Lia chose for her in the dressing room.  

Through the observation deck window she can see the huge blue globe of Captree hanging above her, fully lit by the local star at this angle against a background of distant points of light. ...

When Lia opens the door to follow Raina, it is as if someone is playing a prank – a deluge of feathers fall from above, as if placed over the door as a joke. ...