I-161-Lia: Spanial (N-Space at Captree System)
Emerald on Emerald
Of what is the image?
Will there be just the one or is she planning many?
I’ll replace that in her regular schedule.
Spanial
The ship comes out of hyperspace into the Captree system just after Lia’s breakfast on 211.477.
Back in N-Space, it’s Lia’s job to sit Watch as soon as the Control crew have completed the jump and Jennie has put the ship on course for the Captree Mainworld. However, Ipan has connected the ship to the Comms net and Lia can check her messages.
Messages
Net Messages
To: Lia Silver-Rose
From: Mary Fraser
Sent: 211.427 BCC-7-53
There is no text in this message, just an attached image, a close up of a brown eye with bright gold flecks; it looks quite pretty for an out-of-context eyeball.
To: Lia Silver-Rose
From: Communications Bureau Net Message Service – Outbox Synchronisation Advice
Sent: 211.477 GR04-5-22
AUTO-GENERATED MESSAGE
Mer Silver-Rose,
the Net Message service has detected messages in your message outbox that are not currently in the local message system’s message delivery queue.
While rare, this can happen for a number of reasons, including equipment failure, communications interruption, or if you have recently arrived in system ahead of the earliest Net Packet carrying your message.
Affected messages in your outbox:
- To: Mary Fraser, ‘Re: <no subject>’, Sent Mundo Zargo, 211.455 BB02-5-17, “Hi there, Wasn’t quite sure if I should respond…”
- To: Mary Fraser, ‘Business in Octant 7 is concluded’, Sent Mundo Zargo, 211.457 GR05-5-61, “Hi there, Wondering if you received my last message…”
Would you like to resend the messages to the local message system now?
[YES] [NO] [Select Individual Messages]
For your future convenience, consider asking your local message system administrator to have your local mailbox automatically update the message queue in this situation.
Regards,
Communications Bureau Net Message Service
Winta Page
As she’s spent some time on Captree previously, there is often some Captree-related activity on her Winta page that previously she has been too far away to concern herself with. There are a few messages from past clients querying her whereabouts, some hopeful new referrals, and a couple of clients who like to occasionally share things from their personal lives.
The image she will carve is a stylized self-portrait. It will be on the bottom facet, so when mounted, it will sit against her throat and be visible through the emerald.
Lia is a little fascinated by Raina’s eye. She finds the gold does exactly what she expected, enhances the brown and gives it a flash of the intimidating exotic. She finds it slightly unsettling.
She finds it highly suspicious that the two messages that didn’t go through from Mundo Zargo were for Raina and wonders if that’s what tipped her hand with Zayaire. Either way she will send them on their way now, so Raina can at least see she was actually staying in contact.
She will leave her Winta page at the moment. I assume there’s no point in her messaging Raina? Or can she direct message from here?
There’s nothing from her subscription service?