Private GIRL FRIDAY

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

Pain.
Karlie jarred her eyes open to pain, and darkness.
A minute, perhaps several minutes passed as she desperately tried to get her bearings.
Nothing whatsoever felt right...
Where the hell was she and how did she get this way? Something was immobilizing her, but in the pitch darkness she couldn't make out what or anything at the moment.
Panic was starting to ensue.
That is until memory flashes of her ship, system failure warnings flashes and siren blares... she had collided with something.
Had it had been a dream...the crash? Karlie remembered the instant her proximity alarm went off....then, mayhem... everything just seemed to have crashed, one thing cascading into another...there had been no time-

She had been in hyperspace...yes, Karlie remembered that part well. Hell, it had all gone well before-
"Frak..."
Well, it sure wasn't a dream now, as bits of jarred memories found their way through the pain. Berkana (God) her head throbbed. Karlie then recalled the last second before her ship, everything around her blacked out.

"Gasp"... She started to fumble with what she now expected to be the harness of the pilot chair she should be strapped to. It had been the last thing she attempted to do before it all went black.
Her ship's system had picked up a gravity well, but due to the velocity she were traveling, an 0.3, there hadn't been much time to correct it's course.

There.
Karlie felt the release hasp. The harness was tight..extremely tight and her head were throbbing...nothing about her felt right.
Right.
Right?
"Shiet..." She realized she were topsy-turvy...upside down. Her ship had crash landed upside down!

How far would she fall to the ceiling? Hell if she ever thought about how tall her cockpit ceiling was. well, it couldn't be that high..right?
"Oh frak me.."

Click.
"Gah!"
Tathump... she slammed onto the ceiling below her.

"Ouh..." Karlie landed hard on her shoulder.
"Frak!...frak....frak..." She cursed laying there a moment, trying to let the pain pass.
Yes, she were free.
Not only that, but discovered she could breathe better, no longer bound as she were.. But everything hurt...everything. Her headache had subsided a bit, but was nevertheless still there. Karlie gave it another moment for her blood to re-equalize. How long had she been strapped in her chair upside down? ...she couldn't guess.

Slowly she rolled herself over and in theory should be looking up at the floor.
One... three...then several little indicator lights came into focus. Her ship's systems had crashed but there was still some power...emergency power?

Yes, of course... "Whew...the emergency life support system..." she muttered to self. It were the only explanation as to maybe why she were still breathing. But where was she and why was it so dark? Her ship had duraglass windows. She should be able to see something-

Stars.
Karlie could see a few stars from what she assumed was one of the windows. It were nightfall then.
"Heh..haha..." she let out her first meager sign of relief. She were alive. A relief that was needed to help her fight, subdue the panic that was building up inside her. She were getting some answers as to her current situation. Answers that would mean she 'd be able to find solutions to...if and when she could catch some wind. She were utterly spent, feeling like she went a few rounds with her former drill Sargent.

It were nightfall...
She were too tired, too beat up at the moment to fumble about in the dark. Maybe... just maybe, this rock orbited a star and she'd wait for daylight to filter through the windows so as to get a better bearing on what was functioning and what wasn't.
Yes... that sounded like a good idea in her head.
She'd wait for daylight...

" ...wait...yes, wait for daylight...." she told herself closing her eyes.

 

[Cronista]

22 hours earlier...

Open space has and will always be vast.
Stars, systems, planets and asteroids are but minute objects and sinkholes in the vastness of this void called space.
The odds of a vessel colliding with a known free object are at an extreme high. Considering standard long range scanners and star mapping technology that have become commonplace derivatives in jump calculations, collisions are very rare. That of course is in consideration that a proper jump calculation were made. Then of course the hyperdrive efficiency of a vessel exceeding 1.0 exponentially increases the chance of colliding with an unknown object, such as an asteroid, a rogue planet or other unexpected sink holes existing in the fabric of space.
One such example of unexpected sinkholes, or gravity well, as the on board navigation computers identify it, would be a ghost ship... in this case: a drifting SD from an era that had plunged this galaxy to war.

One such ghost vessel was the abandoned SD Harssac, equipped with gravity generators. Such vessels had required nuclear fusion reactors to generate such deep sinkholes in space. As such, these reactors remained operational if they had not been shut down when their vessel incurred battle damage and hull breech.
The SD Harssac had been drifting in open space for many centuries with it's fusion reactors still pouring power into it's the gravity well generators... unmanned.

It were this unexpected gravity well that had been detected by Karlie Lynn Destat 's on board comp that alerted her of imminent collision. Her vessel unfortunately was travelling at a 0.3 velocity giving it little time to totally avoid the near collision it had that caused it to skim the event horizon of the gravity induced well. Such a near collision would be similar of a wheeled land speeder hitting an equivalent pothole, sending it hurling, rolling it into a ditch.
In Miss Destat's case, it caused her ship to veer off it's hyperlane and of course out of hyperspace, tumbling off a few million miles till her vessel were drawn by an uncharted system's gravity.

This currently uncharted system for now could be named Kromas for story purposes.

The SD Harssac for story purposes could be said to still be drifting about near the same sector that had affected Miss Destat's own vessel.
As long as this SD is drifting in this sector, the possibility of a similar vessel getting caught and influenced as such is a viable possibility... unless such a vessel had already encountered the same mishap.


Aren D'Shade / Karlie Lynn Destat

 

[Ian Sade]

Soon following the event which caused Karlie's ship to be wrenched from hyperspace...


The Castan SD Tecknor was on training maneuvers in a undisclosed location.

"Lieutenant, anything more on that blip?" He asked passing over the comm stations and monitoring crew.
Ian was on the upper deck of the Tecknor's bridge overlooking the communication stations below him.

The SD Tecknor listening station had picked up a fractional emergency blip. It was Castan by frequency, but it had come in and went out cut out in less than .0125 thousandth of a second from the time it were transmitted....indicative of a vessel in hyperspace. Still, it had been an emergency distress signal initiated by a vessel's on board computer.
It was barely noticeable to ordinary comm devices, but that's what they were out here training for.

This had come pretty much at an opportune time. Almost as if it had been part of the training exercises.
Only it wasn't, as Ian himself was the one orchestrating the scenarios and this was picked up .

"No, nothing conclusive as of yet, Colonel."the Comm Team (Lieutenant) leader below him announced. The team were not only checking out the strange blip, but other tasks they were pressed with in these exercises.

"Keep at it till you are certain it can be dismissed..." He reminded the team below him.

"Aye, sir.." and with that, the request had become an order.

Thus far, these new trainees had been on the ball as the scenarios he had been running put them in a mock naval battle. With everything he were throwing at them, he was quite surprised they nabbed this stray weak blip.

Ian had decided to play it out. It wasn't really of much concern to him, despite the minute blip being one of their own. It looked to him to be just that, a blip..a probable comm malfunction that corrected itself. At that minute scale, it could very well of been a reflection even...and eddy signal that had been broken off the original as it passed through a multitude of sectors through space.

There were many such similar signal strands being picked up...just that this one had a Castan modulating matrix to it.
Also, it had been pretty clear for the .0125 thousands of a second in length it existed..then shut down cold. Something in his head urged him not to blow it off.

This little blip had been picked up, recorded and would be part of the final analysis in their training mission objectives at the end of their trials.

Aren D'Shade / Karlie Lynn Destat

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

She laid there quite a while on the cold floor when a hint of Dawn's early light bade her to awaken....and recall her situation.

"Oh Berkana...don't forsake me...please..." She uttered, shifting herself off the ceiling's conduit she had been laying on. She ached. Hell everything ached as she sat up looking at the inverted floor of her ship above her.
The morning light were illuminating the interior by the minute. then a ray of sunlight finaly peeked through the duraglass.

Karlie crawled to the glass and looked out. It seemed like it were a Class M planet as she could see the roots of what could have been the last tree her ship had toppled before coming to a stop.
roots...earth worms...and as she got down again one the ceiling to get a better look up..trees..green trees and blue sky.
Karlie breathed easier. At least she weren't on some god-forbidden rock or moon. Still, where the frack was she on? There was no way for her to guess as her ship had been wrenched out of hyperspace before everything went dark.

Karlie carefully stood up. strange how her ship looked up-side down...
"Shoot... I got to pee.." She looked about still trying to get her bearings as to where the ship's refresher was. Like, would it make a difference?

Karlie knew it would be impractical trying to use the refresher..if at all it still worked.
Then again, it were designed for zero gravity too. maybe just maybe...
"Frak!" The door was closed and apparently like everything else..no power.
She kicked the top...er the upside down door.
She'd have to compromise..make due.

~ ~ ~

Don't drink!!
Karlie underlined the container before putting it down and aside so she wouldn't knock it down later or something.

Ok, now that THAT was out of the way... what next?
Karlie reached up to see if any of the consoles overhead could be made to power up. Sure enough the one that was still semi-operational above her, had indeed the life support system and backup.
"Haha..." she let out a good chuckle. She needed some good news. This was good progress, yes. Maybe she could divert some of the emergency power to other consoles...hopefully the hatch. Of course she knew she could always blow it. But then it would leave her vulnerable if the atmosphere was not up to par in sustaining human life.
Sure there were trees outside, but there could be more Co2 than O2. She had no way of knowing, as the FREAKIN COMPUTER CONSOLE WAS DOWN...goddamn it. "Grrr..."

So after getting pelted with a few ration bars to the head, Karlie set on getting power to some essential equipment. She had started to rummage through some of the cabinets to check on what rations her ship had on hand. She hadn't been certain what she had on board, despite it being her personal craft. Karlie never had to tap into the ship's emergency food and water before. But she remembered her survival training and one key factor was to tally up what could sustain her and for how long.

Being difficult as it was working on the consoles above her, she slowly and meticulously started to divert/distribute emergency power to other consoles...

Aren D'Shade

 

[Erint Tel Set]

In the fading twilight of the setting sun, she had the buck nearly clear in her sights, slowly drawing back her arm for the kill.
All she needed was for the buck to take another step from behind the thickets. She had already picked up that the buck had sensed something in the air. Something she could not.
Erint knew it couldn't be sensing her, nor her mother Utah whom were melded within the foliage near to her right. But before she could get a clear line of sight to lunge her spear, the buck's ears twitched and suddenly bolted away into the thickets... out of range."Gah..." Erint hissed.

Her mother Utah emerged out of the shadows, as the buck altogether disappeared into the forest. Erint turned to her mother as perhaps she too may have picked up something. But her mother wasn't looking at Erint, but rather above and beyond her. In that following instance a loud thunder broke the stillness of the forest. Odd it was to thunder for were it not were clear skies?
"Erint, drop!" her mother shouted, in warning.
But before Erint herself turn to see what was what, Utah quickly grabbed her daughter and pulled Erint close to the ground.

The thunder which she had first heard had continued to roll toward them, seemingly exploding above, shaking the trees, the ground, everything like an angry god shouting at the earth before him.
Erint and her mother had dove on the forest floor as the fire from the sky rushed over them.
In the second it passed, Erint sprung up to her knee and was able to glimpse the thundering fire from the sky before it disappeared over the range. It was a falling star, she thought. She had never been so close to one before. It had to be a big one, to make so much thunder and shake the forest as such. It had lit up the woods around her almost like that of day as it thundered over them.

Erint and her mother were already on their feet just before the falling star suddenly made contact with the earth a distance off. The sound of it crashing over the mountain range told them it wasn't more than a few hours distance.
"The hunt is spoiled this night, daughter, as the beasts are spooked."Utah, her mother spoke.

She agreed, as Utah started to make her way back to their Cas... their home.
Erint was still facing in the direction of where the fallen star path had taken it.
"I think a star that can make such thunder, light up the sky, shake the trees, our bones and heart, must have ore within its own heart." She then said to her mother.

Erint's mother gave a loud laugh. She knew her daughter was going to go find where the fallen star had dug itself into the earth. There was no talking her daughter to call it a night. But Utah herself was going to get some sleep. It had been a full day and they had nothing to bring back from their day of hunt. So she bade her daughter good hunting for her ore. "May it reward your heart with iron, daughter. "

"I will bring back what I can of it, for it is said stars make for good armor, and strong blades" Erint replied, fixing the spear to her back.

So it was said. So then mother and daughter parted.
One to seek the night's rest, the other to seek the heart of the fallen star...


Aren D'Shade / Karlie Lynn Destat

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

"Crap!...what engineer would put the long range emitter on top of a vessel?" yes, the age old question concerning pretty much the standard galactic design of long range communications antennae.

Karlie fisted the console above her. "Damn it!"
Her vessel was currently topsy turvy, upside down. It had crashed that way. The long range communication antennae array was now buried underneath her feet, if not knocked out in the crash altogether.

Dawn's early light had slowly crept into the cockpit, despite the windows now being down by her feet. There was enough light for her to see and continue trying to get as much of her ship working as possible. At least her ship's sensors and computer to analyse the atmosphere on the rock she had inadvertently dropped on.
Karlie were still unsure of the air quality outside much less of the freakin wildlife or whatnot that could be out there.

"Sigh.." She looked over to the emergency hatch above her. It was on the floor of the vessel right above her between the two pilot seats. Should she or shouldn't she? Karlie had to make a decision. She couldn't very well remain in the ship. She'd eventually run out of food. Water she weren't too worried about as she could rig something up that would condense moisture from outside; survival 101

Then she heard it. THUMP.

For a second all were still, including her breathing.

Then THUMP again.

"Gasp...Hello!" She shouted, not realizing that her voice could not resonate through the durasteel plating. nevertheless, she scambled to the lower glass trying to see who it were.
"I'm in here!" It had to be somebody that may have seen her ship coming down. Berkana (God) she was saved!

Thump..Thump...then scratching sounds...like a metal implement? Was somebody out there trying to get her out?
"The hatch!" Karlie shouted, trying to look through the glass by her feet, picking up what was a shadow from someone on top of the ship.
"Stand clear of the hatch!... I'll blow it!" She shouted, tapping on the glass to maybe get that person's attention.
And attention she did for whatever it were on top suddenly dropped down and came to the tapping of the glass.

"Eeek!" Karlie jumped back scrambling across the ceiling (ship's upside down, remember). What was now scratching at the duraglass was no person, but a creature of sort. A creature with long claws and skeletal like features.

It scratched and scratched, even trying to dig around the cockpit glass to try and get into whatever it was in the ship. That of course was Karlie...a tasty little morsel.

"Shiet-frakin-shiet!" Karlie cussed, trying to look about her dissarrayed cockpit for a blaster..any freakin thing she could use as a weapon. But in her frantic near panic haste, she could only come up with a polymer spork from the emergency rations that had spilled from the cabinets she had tried rummaging through before.

"Frak me!" She flung the spork trying to find something more useful, as the scratching was getting more furious outside. Sure enough the scratching and thumping was coming from several different areas of her hull.

There was more than one out there!


Aren D'Shade

 

[Erint Tel Set]

Just before Dawn's early light...
She stopped.

Erint crouched low listening to the sound of the forest awakening. The smush of dew laden foliage on the forest floor was what had alerted her. Reaching over, she drew out the spear from her back, as she activated the slashers from her gauntlets like talons on a raptor. Erint were a ristar, a clan warrior.
her initial instinct was that there was an azon up ahead of her near the ridge.

Surely the falling star must have drawn their attention, if not scattered them, she reasoned. But such events would have likely drove them away.
Unless...
Unless there were casualties...wounded or fleeing beasts in a panic. Then the azons would gather as well.
Well, Erint was no beast and least of all she feared no azons. Still, she were not bold and knew enough not to engage them unnecessarily. That were the male's call to hunt azons and decimate their nest eggs. Ristars were not so zealost over azons, but wouldn't hesitate to kill them should they encounter them.

But an azon it was not. Not the creature she were coming up on at least.
Erint were picking up that it were a lesser forager, as it's steps were cautious and lighter in displacement than even that of a newly gestated azon.
Regardless, her eyes were on the trees, watching for gnarled shadows (typical of hidden azons)…and small glints of light reflecting off the starry night. The azons were not masters of camouflage, like her kind. Although they hid among the shadows, wrapping themselves around trees, rocks and fissures. Their exoskeletons reflected light despite their neutral to dark color. Then again, Erint's eyes were well adapted to the night, especially on a starry night, enabling her to differentiate between shadows and shapes.

Erint had been walking for hours already toward where the falling star had come down upon the earth. She was after it's heart...it's ore. A fallen star that made it to the earth always had ore. With this ore her kind made the strongest armor and blades that her clan could fashion. And only the strongest and sharpest blades were worthy enough to bring down an azon.

She listened for a while longer as the starry sky turned slowly above. She herself had become part of the earth...the trees...the rocks and soil. She became in essence, part of the living mountain. And her ability to see in near pitch of darkness was unmatched.
One could walk right past Erint when she were in a mind set to hunt, and not even be aware of her at arms length distance. Erint was on top of the predatory chain on her world. She were a true hunter predator.

She were crouched there low as the elphine (deer-like forager) drew nearer. It had not seen, sensed, nor smelled her, as Erint had no scent. At least none which were detectable.
The elphine walked almost right up to her as it cautiously made its way through the woods.

Normally, this would have been a good catch, as it's flesh were tender and sweet. But Erint was no longer hunting for food. She was hunting for the ore which the falling star had brought down.
She seamlessly emerged out of her surroundings, coming out of her camouflage and quietly extended her hand to the unsuspecting elphine. The blades from her gauntlets had retracted in silence moments before when she had realized it were not an azon. Erint remained there as still as the night, as the elphine came about her like she were still part of the tree. It had not noticed she had exposed herself, the transformation was so natural like.
She then touched the elphine on its shoulder, as it passed. "Another time." she then spoke.

The startled creature jumped sideways, smacking itself on the opposite tree as it's legs scrambled to regain traction and took off as fast as nature designed it to be.

"Hehe..." Erint laughed in silence watching the elphine dart over and around obstacles until it were out of sight.
She then took to listen some more.
If any azons were nearby, they too would have made their move and least of all, gone after the elphine. It was large enough prey to gestate their young. In a way, Erint had startled the elphine to use it as decoy.

But apparently no azons were around.

Erint then continued her silent trek through the woods. She barely made any sound whatsoever over what the wind whispered about. To track her was almost impossible. At least no creature could, say for her own kind. And her kind never hunted, nor ever conflicted with one another.

By night's end Erint came upon ground zero. She had crested the ridge and looked over the damage the thunder (sonic-shock-wave) had made to the trees and just about everything in the star's path as it came through the tree line.
As she got closer, the more damage she could see. There were the debris of trees, roots and rocks up heaved.

Erint's heart were beating with excitement. A falling star of this nature had to have had a strong heart to do so much damage.
Just as the sun crested over the same ridge, Erint spotted the fallen star. To her amazement it were smooth and reflected the dawn's early light much like that of an azon. Only that azons never fell from the sky...trees yes, but nothing of the size she were walking over to.

Ears perked as she picked up their sound. There were azons about. Erint quickly melded into her surroundings. She heard several scurrying about near the fallen star, and she were just one.

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

Whatever they were , they were certainly not out there trying to rescue her, but trying to get in to snack on her.

The scratching and pounding had gotten feverishly as Karlie scrambled about on the ceiling of her ship to locate a blaster or some sort of weapon. But compartment after compartment was turning up nothing but stores falling down all over her. The cockpit ceiling floor was becoming a disaster area, causing Karlie to occasionally slip and fall to her knees as she continued to search for anything useful. "Shiet...come on!" Karlie did her best not slipping and sliding about as she continued to search as to where the goddamn blaster could be at. "Where the frak-"

Then as quickly as the creatures outside had begun rasping at her hull, they stopped. In doing so, Karlie suddenly froze herself, perking her ears trying to figure out as to why they stopped. But they hadn't stopped.

Scratch...scratch...scratch.... Karlie shot her attention to the opposite side of where they had tried getting in.
A THUMP followed by more scratching on different sides ....then stopped.

Scratch...scratch....scratch... at another corner, then stop.

This went on for several minutes, obviously whatever they were, they were testing for any weakness in the hull.

Thump...thump...again above her, to her left..to her right with scratching and such until one by one it seemed to stop.

Karlie slowly got down on her stomach trying to see if she could spot anything. And spot she did...a tail disappearing up and away.
Whatever they were, they seemed to have given up and left....or so she were praying.

Karlie remained quiet and limited her movements for quite some time. She certainly didn't want whatever they were to come back..if they even left.
She had so many thoughts in her head as to what they could be up too. maybe they were just waiting...waiting for her to come out.
"Shiet.." She didn't like that. Yet that was a good probability. Whatever they were, they had to have heard her tapping away at them when she thought they were a rescue party. The creatures knew she were inside and had done all they could to try and claw their way in...and failed.

Maybe..just maybe they did give up and leave. As the hour crept to the next, it was appeared so.
Karlie were starting to feel better, less frightened to as the cockpit had gotten brighter with the morning sunlight filtering through the lower glass.
"Sigh... Oh Berkana...how'm I gona get out of this one?..." She sighed, looking around the cockpit sitting on her butt. There was a lot of contents now all around her that had fallen from her frantic search. She saw a few were energy bars and hungrily picked one up and opened it. It wasn't at all as bad as she remembered them to be she thought. Yes, she just realized how hungry she was and started to lean back so as to rest her back when-

Thump

 

[Erint Tel Set]

They wouldn't gather in a pack unless there was a warm blooded beast or more, for them harvest. Azons, didn't eat what they hunted, rather they seeded their young in carbon based lifeforms which they hunted. Azons were in fact silicone based, not carbon. They grew to adult hunter size by other means than taking in protein from prey.

No, azons were by far the most dangerous species on her world. They didn't follow the natural life cycle. They had their own. It was why the her kind, especially the males of her kind hunted them feverishly. They made it their life's quest to hunt the azons to extinction... as their covenant dictated.

Erint was just one and there were several azons by the fallen star. Although as Erint were observing from her vantage point, it were no fallen star (meteorite) that she had even seen before. It resembled a kind of egg...a large egg. Erint's blood would have run cold thinking that it could possibly be an egg from a gigantic azon. But she had camouflaged herself, acclimated her blood and skin to match her immediate surrounding. To the azons by the fallen object, Erint was unseen.

The sun rose from it's sleep climbing higher and higher, but she remained there observing the azons trying to crack this egg looking thing that had fallen from the sky...and they couldn't.
try as they might, they could not find a soft spot to crack it. Erint just had to wait, for azons would give up. And they did..one by one they left.
Erint remained camouflaged for some time after. She were a hunter. Patience was a natural conditioning.

Erint then emerged from what appeared to be thin air and approached the strange object.
It were smooth to the touch...and it were of metal.
It were something which had been made. But who could forge something so big? Where would they get so much ore to do so...and why had it fallen from the sky? How did it get up to the sky being something so big and heavy...and so Erint the tried to reason.

All she could smell outside from her natural surroundings were what secretions the azons had left. But something had kept them there and had caused them to act in a frenzy to crack the metal object. Erint could guess it were not solid but hollow when she struck it with the end of her spear.
Thump...

It resounded back like it had a large cavity within...it were hollow like an egg.
So something could well be inside, she reasoned. But how could she crack it, as it were of metal..of armor?Erint took to climb on top of the object. And sure enough, she made out the lines of what could be a door. Only there was little space for her spear tip to try and pry it open.
So she started to knock around it, trying to hear of a weak spot. And a weak spot it had as she came upon a section that popped open a small fissure. Erint looked at it in awe. It were of a relief much like her own hand. She did a quick check around the area to make sure the azons hadn't returned, before placing her hand on it.
Nothing happened.
"Heh..." Now why would there be a relief of a hand then?

She tried again, but still nothing.
Then she thought of burn. Burn would use up much of her stored energy. And she hadn't eaten since the morning before the hunt.

"Hmm.." Yes, she would burn..raise her body temp to that of the warm blooded creatures such as the ones she hunted and consumed. Thus Erint raised her body temp...up up it climbed to almost that of a normal human when the relief suddenly lit up and Erint heard a resounding click..followed by a hiss as air escaped from inside and out the seams.

What she figured out was some kind of door was in actuality the bottom escape hatch of Karlie's ship. Only that the ship had landed upside down.
It started to give way and part when all of the sudden, it snapped sealed again.
"Huh?" Erint didn't know what happened. Why had the door closed again? She still had her hand on the glowing relief.

Erint removed her hand a moment, then tried again.
Again the door seemed to open, then shut tight again.

"Arrk!" She snapped at it, hitting the door with her gauntlet.

She tried it again. This time she jammed the spear head when the door started to open. Sure enough it tried to close again, but now couldn't.
"Huh?" What was that? She heard something from inside..like a high pitched voice struggling.
With her spear head jamming the door, she were able to reach her hand, grasping the metal door and pull it open. She were doing so when it sprung closed somewhat. But it didn't spring close like before as it now felt like something was hanging on the door to keep it shut.

"Arrk!...by the gods!" Erint had had enough. She braced herself getting a good foothold and pulled the door up with all her might.

To her surprise, a young girl were dangling on the door. It had golden hair-

The woman seemed to have been pulled up with the door. Erint then came upon the frightened stare of the woman's eyes. they were as blue as the sky! The woman screamed, then let go, dropping back down into the cavern below (her ship).
She heard the woman fall back hard below.
Erint then swung the door (escape hatch) to the side and looked down and upon the woman whom seemed to be on the floor and in pain and quite besides herself in tearful fear. Had the woman below sensed danger?
Erint immediately tensed up, swinging her spear around, readying herself to fight off an azon. But none of the azons had returned. So what was the woman inside frightened of?

Erint decided to jump down and see as to why the woman was so distraught.

Thump...Erint landed near a very frightened Karlie who now seemed to be desperately backing away from her...trying to crawl backward, like she were prey. The woman were behaving like the elphine (wood deer). Perhaps the woman's eyes had not acclimated to the darker interior of the cavern she were in, Erint thought as she stood herself fully up

Unknowing to Erint, Karlie were not of her world and were mistaking Erint's armor for something sinister.

Erint indeed looked like she were going to eat Karlie for lunch, in full armor.

 

[Aren D'Shade]

In an effort to try and break herself of a habit, Aren had launched herself into space aboard one of the ships she had. Of course, this habit was an addiction to technology and it was something she couldn't rid herself of entirely. With the woman, came her three droid companions but she had left her porg at home. He was getting old and she didn't want him to get hurt on one of her adventures. Making sure he had enough food and somebody to check up on him, she gave him one last pet before leaving.

There was one world Aren was familiar with that didn't have much technology but she didn't want to go there again. So the young woman punched in a name almost at random. This would be an adventure! Noticing the length of travel time, she laid back in her seat to take a nap after watching her ship warp into hyperspace.

The next thing she knew was the alarms blaring in her cockpit and getting pulled out of hyperspace. Coming to quickly, she managed to get her ship under control and avoid crashing. Though she did have a bit of a rough landing. On the way down, she noticed the signs of another crashed ship. Perhaps they had also fallen prey to the anomaly that she had.

Once she was solidly on the ground, she and her companions carefully exited their ship...

@too many to tag lol

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

She didn't know what it was, only that it seemed to look like the same creatures that had tried getting inside before.
Karlie Gasped, seeing the yellow indicator light above her. It meant that the exterior access panel to the emergency floor hatch had been activated.

"Shiet, no way!" she cussed seeing the light go from yellow to red. the hatch had been compromised, it had been unlocked.
Karlie jumped as high as she could and grabbed hold of the recessed handle. Maybe she could keep whatever creature was opening it, from doing so.
Nope.
The hatch were lifted along with Karlie dangling on it.

"Eeeek!" Karlie screamed and let go, dropping back down hard on her back.
The bright blue skies blinded her, but she nevertheless caught a dark silhouette from above dropping down.

It took a moment for her to make the creature out and it certainly wasn't pretty. It were armored with scales and spikes or whatnot...it were not the time to study details but to scream and beg Berkana (God) for mercy if not salvation.
She was hurt, but that didn't impede her from trying to scramble away from the creature as it fully erected ready to pounce on her.
Then on cue, the blonde passed out.

Her mother's hand were caressing her head, her hair...tracing out her features...
Karlie then woke up.

"Gasp!"...naturally Karlie were surprised when she came to.
Shocked at having a woman's face looking down on her and not what creature had dropped in. Karlie remained on her back looking up at the woman, blinking trice as she recalled a creature had found its way into her ship. The braids...the scales-
No...no, it were armor.
"W..who are you?" Karlie desperately asked...panic was close in the wing. Then she seen it. the same creature's head that she recalled on the floor next to the woman.

 

[Erint Tel Set]

Erint herself didn't know what to make of the small woman who seemed to be seeing ghosts. There was no one else in the cavern (cockpit) other than them two.

Then to her surprise, the woman suddenly lost consciousness.
Erint quickly dropped on her knees thinking perhaps the woman had injuries that were under her skins. She quickly checked the woman for injuries but could not find any.
Her hair... Erint had never seen golden hair...not on a woman. She then went and checked the woman's eyes, carefully lifting an eye lid. Erint had thought she had seen blue eyes when the woman came up with the door.
Sure enough the woman's eyes were blue...blue like the sky. And her skin...fair, and warm. And of the skins she wore...thin..layered. Erint tried smelling the pelts, but they didn't smell, nor feel like any animal pelt she knew. They were weaved..fine delicate but strong weave.
This woman was not from her world. That much she then surmised as she looked about. And this was no cavern, nor any egg that she could figure to be. it were a shelter of sort. a strong shelter made of iron ore...all around...underfoot, everything it seemed. Except the leather like fixtures overhead (the pilot seats). They appeared to be hanging from the ceiling like..prey. Only that Erint knew them not to be of any living thing.

"Ahh..." Erint then finally figured it out. The ceiling were much smother, while the floor where the woman lay unconscious was not. it were not made to be like a floor.
Erint turned her head upside down.
YES, the entire shelter was topsy-turvy she figured.

The woman's slight moaning turned her attention back at her. Erint leaned over the woman again. She parted the golden hair from her features..again, it felt like no hair she felt before. The golden hair was thin, soft..and smelled of blossoms of sort.

"Seyla." Erint greeted the awakening woman with a 'hello'.

Again, the woman became startled, trying to make herself small, pressing herself against the floor. The woman was certainly frightened of her then. maybe so, as Erint had never seen anyone like her and she assumed neither had the woman.
Who was she, the golden hair woman asked.

"I am Erint, of Clan Setting Sun" She replied, still feeling a flock of the woman's golden hair between her fingers.
The woman's eyebrows were gold too. But what were catching her attention most were the woman's blue eyes. Erint never seen anyone with blue eyes.
Were this an angel?

"I saw you fall out of the sky."

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

"Erint?..." Karlie repeated.
"Erint of Clan setting Sun...." It were always good tactic to get the other party to talk... to converse. Karlie still weren't certain of the woman's intention. Hell, she could have sworn she remembered the woman lifting both the hatch and her. No doubt this woman could smite her with one swing.
"..yes... I understand." She nodded, feeling now a bit under the microscope as the woman were still feeling her hair.

"I'm Karlie.... Karlie Destat. " She gestured to self.
"That's...that's my family name-
Ahhh....Wha what are you doin?" Karlie tried pulling herself back, but she were already by the bulkhead.
Erint had touched Karlie's lips as she had spoken, somehow curious as to the condition of her teeth. Sure enough the woman went and felt Karlie's canine.

"Please..stop. I don't see why-" Karlie suddenly knew why. "Ohh...Ok...yea...very nice teeth. Nice..yes..."
The had woman bared her own teeth in a kind of smile....or so Karlie hoped.
Erint's teeth had more pronounced canines. Damn, the woman could eat her if she choose.

"I...I don't taste very well....really." Karlie had no idea that even came out of her mouth. But it did.
Erint removed herself from Karlie..dropped her hair, pulling her torso away a moment and looked over Karlie in surprise.

No, no she didn't eat people that fell from the skies. She didn't eat people that looked like her at all. Although Erint did state that Karlie was very different from her.

"Oh?.. Yea?..like what?..gulp." Yes, Karlie were still in that 'keep them talking routine'.
Erint then went to point out the obvious: Karlie's hair.
Karlie's eyes...
Karlie's muscle tone... her skin... her clothing...the shell she had fallen out of the sky with....

"Yes, I see your point. I understand what you mean, yes.
I...I have to say.... your hair...the braid thing going on there.... yea, you're nice too." Karlie thought best to compliment this amazon woman..or whatever humanoid subspecies she were. It were obvious the woman was primitive.

That of course brought a chuckle from Erint before she went and asked Karlie if she lived up in the sky.

"What?...live up there? Uhm...sometimes.... yes.
I mean, you know about spaceships, right?"

No.
No, Erint didn't. This was the first falling star she followed that had a fallen angel come down with it.

"Say what?... me, a fallen angel?...Haha....er no, sorry. I don't think so...no."

But no, it didn't look like Erint was buying it.
"Seriously, this..." Karlie patted the ceiling floor she were sitting on. "...this is a ship...it's a bit upsy topsy right now...but it is what 's called a space ship. It ascends...lifts up off the ground and takes you to other places..to other systems...you know, planets."

A minute passed with Erint looking at her in disbelief, before she reached over and got Karlie on her feet.
She wanted Karlie to show her.
"I can't... " Karlie looked into Erint's fire red orbs. "It's...it's broken." she sighed.

 

[Erint Tel Set]

Erint then motioned with her hand the world turning upside down.
The blue eyed woman confirmed it. So yes, the vessel the blue eyed woman called a space ship had tumbled and set itself upside down. Erint nodded her comprehension.

Again Erint gestured with her hand in a breaking fashion. "This space ship is broken and cannot fly through the heavens?" She asked.

The woman shook her head in a sad fashion. No, her ship could no longer fly.

"You...." Erint pointed to Karlie. " ...you gather what you can carry. I will bring you to my coven. The creatures that were around your spaceship will return. They are azons and they will gestate their young in you."

Of course, the blonde woman didn't understand what she meant as far as what the azons would do to her, but she did fear the creatures and nodded....agreeing to come with her.

"Good. Good.... " She had figured out that the blonde was gathering some food that seemed wrapped in some kind of thin casings.
"Uh, no. No that is not needed. You have clothing already.
Do you have a spear? Do you have a spear, a spike or any kind of weapon?...armor?
No...that seems to heavy for you to carry. " Erint took the case from the woman, a case Karlie seemed to be struggling with. It were nothing. It were lighter than the woman had demonstrated. Erint took it, hefted to check it's weight, then looked back over to Karlie and chucked the case to the side. The girl Karlie protested, and went to retrieve it...again struggling like it were of substantial weight.

"We will travel the remainder of this day and will reach my coven by dawn." Erint pointed out.
The blonde woman dropped the case.

"Haha..yes, only what you can carry." She repeated, watching Karlie scavenge for what she were to bring with her. Then the woman seemed to shout with excitement as she picked up a small implement, wrapping her hand on the handle. Erint didn't understand what it was or what use it had., but the woman Karlie were relieved she found it , calling it a blaster. Again, Erint had no idea what she were meaning. She only knew the woman was more than happy she had found it. After showing it to Erint, she tucked it within her clothing, before gathering up in a sack of kind more items.

"Good...now we must go. But you wait here first and I will go up and scout the treeline. I will call on you to jump up." And with that, Erint took to leaping up and out of the escape hatch.

In no time, Erint's head popped back into view from above.
"Come, Karlie of family Destat...come, it's clear." Erint gesture below for Karlie to jump up as she did.

It didn't happen.

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

"Are you kidding me?" Karlie asked. was this amazon woman playing with her? How could she be expected to jump like that?..like her?!

"Erint... I can't jump like that." No. No she couldn't.
But she could extend her hand up to the woman as gestured and-

"Ahhck...
Oh my God, oh my God..." Karlie blabbed as Erint took hold of her hand and yanked her up like she were a small fish on a hook.
Before she could utter another word or complain that her arm were about to be pulled out of its socket, she were standing on the hull of her capsized spaceship.

"Oh wow...I did all that?" She were looking at the crash site and the trees uprooted or felled were as far as the eye could see.
Ok, Ok...so it was to the other ridge...maybe a half kilometre. But it was a stretch.
It were the path by which the amazon Erint said she had followed. It were described as the destruction stretching over two ridges.

She were to follow Erint.
"You're going to catch me, right?" Yes, Karlie couldn't jump down off the belly of her ship to the soil either.

"Say what?..am I a child? Seriously?"
Yes, the amazon woman was serious. She had a concerned look on her face...or was it confusion? Either way, Erint didn't seem to understand how Karlie could neither jump up or down.
"No I'm not a child. And I ain't no Amazon either!"

The curious look on the amazon woman below said it all. What was Karlie speaking of?
What was an Amazon, Erint asked... motioning Karlie to jump.
"Never mind.
You promise to catch me?"

Nope, the amazon woman didn't know what 'promise' was either.

"Urg!...promise!" Karlie stamped her foot down on the hull.
"You know... when you agree to do as the other asks of you" Karlie explained.
Ahh yes, the amazon woman understood, nodding and gesturing for Karlie to jump.

And jump Karlie did, toward Erint's embrace.
Only she didn't find herself in Erint's arms. Rather she hit the dirt face down. Lucky for Karlie it had just recently been tilled...up-churned by her ship. ...a somewhat soft 'thump'.

"What the * * * *!" Karlie spat out dirt and debris.

 

[Erint Tel Set]

"I give you the promise.
Now jump to me." Erint replied, enticing Karlie to do so.

"Come....come... I catch you." She encouraged the blonde.

At that moment, what had been thought to be a distant rumble of thunder turned out to be another unnatural object that had come from the heavens. Only this one were not falling, but rather overshadowed them for a moment as it roared above seemingly flying, not falling as the vessel that Karlie had been found in had.

Thump!...
"Gah!..." Erint looked back down at the woman. She had been distracted, surprised by the flying vessel and had looked up toward it. Unfortunately it were at the same time Karlie took to jump.

"I turned...the sky..." Erint pointed to what had just passed over them.
"Anothes come?" She asked Karlie, as she helped her up. Was there another of her kind? How did they travel like they did across the sky? Surely they were heavenly beings. Perhaps they lacked strength for they needed to be ..light in order to fly? But they came in iron vessels... it made little sense to Erint.

"More of you come?" Erint then asked.

The blonde were surprised as she...and more than excited that one of the sky vessels had come. Of course Karlie seemed too preoccupied in brushing herself off, leaving what she had brought out of her vessel and making toward to where the other vessel had settled behind the tree line.

What Erint gathered as she followed the blonde was that it were another of Karlie's kind that had come to rescue her.
Of course, the word 'rescue' wasn't in Erint's vocabulary and Karlie in her haste managed to explain what it meant.
"Ahh...I understand. yes." Erint replied.

"This 'rescue', it happens a lot to you, Karlie of family Destat?"

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

Karlie's face dropped, as did her self esteem.

"What?" Karlie stopped, turning about.

Erint repeated her question: did she need rescuing a lot?

"I heard you the first time...." She looked Erint over to see if the woman were busting on her. Erint wasn't. She were just asking a simple question.

"But nooo..." Karlie replied before multiple flashbacks of her many recent rescues by her friends and comrades.
"...not all the time."

Erint seemed to look over her a moment, before flashes of her sharp canines in the form of a smile, turned to a chuckle. "

"Hey!...you don't know me. Sure i get into a few tuffles here and there. But I'm an IBI agent...I've been trained for combat and ...and stuff like that."

Erint asked for some meanings to what she were saying.
"IBI..that's my job. It's what I do. I investigate..search for the truth.. search for answers.
That, and I command armies...you know, warriors." Karlie tried to explain.

But the more she spoke of herself being in a leadership position, the more Erint, found it amusing.

"What?..
Honestly, I've been trained to fight... I'm not so different from you. I'm..I'm a warrior too, you know."

Erint seemed quite entertained at this revelation. She seemed to find Karlie amusing and just nodded along like..like she were some child or whatnot.

"Ok so I don't have a spear and..and spear things. But I do have this." And with that, she pulled out the blaster again. Erint were not impressed but just curious as to what that thing in Karlie's hand was or did. In fact, Karlie were asked as to what it was this thing she called blaster.

"You've never seen or heard of a blaster before?"

It were apparent that Erint hadn't by the very reason she reached for it.

"Whoa..whoa...what are-
You can't reach for someone's blaster like that!
Erint?
Erint...please let go of the blaster...least of all stop looking into the barrel." Karlie had her trigger finger to the side of the weapon, but still holding it.

"The hole...is...where..the blaster bolt comes out of...
Sigh...Please stop looking into it."

Erint let go, but curiously asked what it was used for. Was it a tool to hammer armor for, as it were also made of metal.

"No..." Karlie lowered the blaster, keeping it pointed to the ground.
"It's not a tool per say. It's a weapon... an energy weapon."

Erint then asked what an energy weapon was, before gesturing to her spear..the gauntlets (which by the way, Erint demonstrated the spikes which came out, then retracted) and apparently a kind of knife she had at her waist side.

"Fine." Karlie replied, looking about the trees they were trekking through to get to the rescue ship.

"Ok..there..." She raised her blaster pointing to where she were going to fire. It were an old tree, gnarled somewhat. Something by which Karlie thought wouldn't mind being blasted looking as it did.
At that instant, Erint herself sprung into some kind of cool stance as she drew her own weapon out...her spear.

Karlie fired.
PEW
She fired at the same moment that gnarly looking part of the old tree unwound itself and were about to charge them. It were an azon!
The blaster bolt hit the alien creature dead through it's skull, splattering it's brains or whatever shirt it had for brains all over it's immediate surroundings...stopping it dead cold.
It's body just crashed ahead of the tree as it had been in motion toward them.

"EeeeK... Oh my God what the frak was that?!" Karlie screamed as the bolt blew the alien's head open. She were so startled, so surprised and least of all expecting to hit something living that she scrambled backward , tripped and fell on her butt.
Erint on the other hand, hurled her sear. But not at the same creature there were two..three of them that had seemed to be stalking them.
Erint's spear found it's mark, pinning the creature to the tree through it's torso. It squealed, letting out a loud shriek. It was deafening.

"Shiet...Frak me! WTF!!" Karlie tried getting her pitiful self up, but in her panic she slipped back down on her ass.
Erint by that time had rushed the third creature, crashing her shield against the creature's head. Incidentally, Erint's shield was made from such a creature's head.

The one Erint had impaled on the tree seemed to have freed itself and were lunging toward Karlie.
Karlie managed to fire of several bursts , finding one..two on the creature, making it tumble and squirm. She let loose a few more rounds to end it's trashing before turning her attention over to Erint and the other.

Karlie's heart was racing a kilometre a minute...she aimed her blaster over to the two.
"Frak...MOVE!....MOVE out of the frakin way ERINT!!!" Karlie shouted as she pointed her blaster at the two, but couldn't fire, lest she hit the amazon woman.

The creature and Erint seemed to be wrestling, with Erint trying to keep it's freaking goddamn jaws from biting her. Finally the creature back handed Erint off itself. Erint were hurled a few meters into the air. Karlie let out a volley of blaster fire. The creature came apart like shredded porcine (Karlie's favorite cuisine by the way) by the time Erint got back up to her feet.

It was over.

But not for Karlie. She were still frantic, pointing her weapon all about, here, there..everywhere, expecting more of the creatures to pop out of the trees.

Erint had gotten up on her feet and looked over to Karlie and the decimated creature the azons, before walking over to the frightened blonde.

"Wha..." Karlie could hardly talk, much less catch her breath.
"...what the frak were those creatures?"

Erint knelt next to her, gently putting her hand on Karlie's shoulder. She spoke calmly, reassuring the blond that there were no more.

"No more? You...pant...pant....you sure?"

Yes, Erint were certain.
And Erint were smiling...smiling at Karlie like the blonde were indeed a warrior...a ristar like herself. Sure, the blonde exhibited very weak qualities for a female warrior, but she had the means, the weapons to make her a ristar... a warrior like herself.

It took a few moments for Karlie to get a hold of herself and wind down. But she had gained Erint's respect nevertheless....or had all this been a test?

"I'm telling you... I'm no angel, Erint. " Karlie replied, getting up. The amazon woman was back on that kick again...
"I'm just from another world...
Same as the other ship that landed.
Speaking of which..." She looked around trying to regain her bearings. The trees, the ground where the azons had spattered seemed to have dissolved, eaten away like their blood had been acid or something...

"..we best find that ship."

Aren D'Shade

 

[Erint Tel Set]

A weapon?
Erint looked over to it again. What kind of weapon could it be, being so blunt? It was made of metal that much she were certain, but it had neither spike, nor anything by which to bring down anything for a hand held weapon.
She stood there looking on as the blonde lifted it, leveling it to her shoulder. The girl Karlie focused on the tree not a few quick paces distant-
Wait, what was-?
Then Erint made it out. It were an aezon!
Before she could shout out a warning for the blonde to ready for an attack; PEW.......Lightning flashed!

It were like fire, that which flew out of Karlie's hand held weapon. And of the sound... it was much like a high pitched howl, that followed the small bolt of lighting that came out of the metal weapon..

Before her very eyes, the skull of the charging aezon splintered and cracked, spattering it's blood-fire behind it...dropping the beast right there and then. Erint couldn't believe in how quickly the beast fell dead.
It had taken her by surprise. Surprise enough for her to miss the second aezon that charged them. Immediately Erint engaged it, pinning it's torso in an adjacent tree with her spear. It were her sole main weapon and she had thrown it. She had too, for there was a third aezon and it too had charged them. Erint had thrown her spear to pin it while she engaged the third one from lunging at the blonde.
In the midst of the fight, more lighting bolts flew out of the blonde's weapon. each and every bolt that came into contact with the aezons were of great consequence to the beasts.

Erint stood firm as all three beast were slain by the blonde...by Karlie.
Had she witnessed the aezons death by the hand of a goddess?...if not a god, then surely the blonde had to be an angel, she were reasoning. A fallen angel then...
She remained in awe looking down upon the angel from heaven's fall. This surely had to have been a test.
Erint's beliefs stated that the gods often tested them in various means.

Was the angel still testing her?...for surely it seemed frightened still, as it moved her weapon from tree to tree.
"No..." Erint looked about a moment as she walked over to Karlie. The blonde was still in fright.
"No, there are no more.." She replied before taking a knee by Karlie. Erint looked the frightened woman over for any injuries or burns. There were none.

"You killed them all, Karlie." Erint's words finally seemed to calm the blonde, making her lower her weapon to the ground.
"If there were others, they have been spooked." Again Erint looked about. Her senses were somewhat compromised as she were still in awe over the weapon and even more so of the woman whom seemed still as helpless as a child..even with such a weapon in hand.

"Come... rise. " Erint offered her hand.
"We must keep moving as the aezons may come back in greater numbers.." Erint then said, still looking at the weapon in Karlie's hand. It surely was a weapon of the gods.
Erint's creed had them respect another's weapon, however it were fashioned. If it were superior, then it deserved much more respect. One's weapon was considered their extension, like a hand. It belonged to that warrior onto death. Even if it were superior, it would be buried with that warrior so as for them to use it on Othala.

The blonde finally calmed enough to rise, taking Erint's offered hand.
They would continue on, toward other vessel of Karlie's kind.
It were not too distant.

Aren D'Shade

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

The trees and brush were thick this side of the mountain. Karlie had not eased up on feeling that they were being watched...stalked...ready to be pounced on from around the next tree, from above...damn, from all around.

The amazon had given up on trying to ease the blonde's nerves. Most likely she figured it were Karlie or her kind's way..their behavior when trekking through unknown territory.
"I...I don't know.
I mean, the damn thing..." she were saying before Erint corrected her. " Oh, right. the aezon....right. It just appeared out of nowhere." Karlie were saying, looking back, and just about everywhere but where she were stepping on.
crack..rustle..rustle... her feet were not helping the situation which she feared.

Erint then suddenly stopped and turned to her. Karlie thinking that more creatures were going to pop out of the thickets readied her blaster.
"What?...what do you mean, I am calling them? I'm not doing anything!" Karlie replied to Erint's accusation that the blonde herself were likely going to make her fears come true.

"Huh?.." crack, she snapped another twig underfoot as she questioned the amazon as to what she were implying.

Erint pointed to the twig Karlie just snapped...then to the path of shuffled leaves..the blonde's tracks.

"Oh...shoot." Karlie looked to Erint apologetically. "Yea... I see. " Karlie replied, finally getting it. "Sorry...just...just edgy is all after those aezons."

Erint chuckled, shaking her head. How could someone with a great weapon be so...so timid, she came to ask.

"Timid...who, me? " Karlie had to take a deep breath to look convincing. " No, no... I'm... I'm not timid. I'm..." Ok, so compared to this amazon she could be.

"Alright...so I'm a lot cautious than say someone like you. But come on, those things were ferocious!"

So it went as Karlie and Erint started trekking again. But this time, the blonde was looking not only everywhere around her, but also where she were stepping. She were more conscious of not making too much noise, or shuffling the leaves underfoot to make whatever could be tracking them not so easily. Still, as best as Karlie could trek as quietly as she could (which of course she couldn't..although it were an improvement from before), Erint's presence she noticed was as whisper quiet as the wind. Which in the woods there wasn't much wind blowing.

"Oh finally..." Karlie exclaimed when she followed Erint's index to the ship out in the clearing they were heading to.
Karlie could not have spotted the ship on her own, but once Erint motioned for Karlie to follow the sight line of her index, the blonde made out a portion of the ship through the thicket.

"Yes...yes, I see it..." She said with much relief.

Aren D'Shade

 

[Aren D'Shade]

While Aren hadn't landed far from the other vessel, it was still far enough away that no creatures attacked her. Their attention was on the other ship. Whatever had caused her ship to malfunction was still somewhere up there and Aren wasn't sure how to get past that.

With her mind still on the stars above, she climbed out of the ship with her droid friends. Sending Red off to fly and scout out the area, it only took him a moment to find signs of the previous crash. He also sent images of the approaching two women and Aren got ready to meet with them.

Not being a fighter, she just hoped they weren't going to attack her when they arrived. Getting the feeling of being watched though, she kept Red on alert and requested him to keep watch over the area.

Circling around her ship for signs of damage, the only one she noticed right away was the landing struts. They were totally broken. It would be difficult to take off without them and impossible to make a safe landing on something solid. A space dock with a claw would be different and easy to connect to. Right now that wasn't possible and her first priority was getting off this world. After that, she could worry about landing somewhere else.

Letting out a sigh, she waited for the two women to find her. Perhaps they could help her get off this world. When they came out of the brush, Aren was sitting at the bottom of her landing ramp with EL and Sam at her side. Waving she stood up and showed her empty hands.

"Hello."

That was all she said and just waited for them to get closer.

Karlie Lynn Destat Erint Tel Set