Blake's 7 - Travis - Table 3
High Stakes (prompt 21 - a matter of luck)
Travis said that Cally’s luck ran out when she didn’t die. It was a kind of luck he understood intimately. At the time, he meant his words to have a biting irony. Later, with increasing experience and decreasing sanity, Travis came to accept them as the literal truth. Thus he viewed the final act as a sort of gift he could give to all of mankind - if they were lucky.
Party Time (prompt 19 - on the radio)
Travis sent Blake an invitation on the radio. He didn’t sign it, he didn’t specify a recipient, but both men knew what it was for. Unfortunately, he did not specify a time. Blake decided to show up unfashionably early. After all, Travis had crashed his political party years before.
A Simple Definition (prompt 09 - a stitch in time)
Giroc probably didn’t realize that she had doomed Travis to failure by using the words “the death of a friend.” For “friend,” Travis subconsciously substituted “liability.” He knew from the start that Jenna would be a liability. Had he thought of “friend” the way Blake did, as a token of good faith given by the universe, he would have bothered to find a food source for the mutoid. But had he thought of friend the way that Blake did, he wouldn’t have been accompanied only by a mutoid in the first place.
Redefinition (prompt 01 - flip side)
But then why did he try to get a response from her, calling her by her old name, Keyeira? Why taunt her by telling her she had been beautiful, admired? Why the disappointment at the lack of response, the disgust at the blood she consumed, when he knew very well the nature of mutoids? He had told Servalan that he preferred their company because the artificial arm gave him a fellow feeling. Yet it was that arm that marked his difference from them, that arm in which he carried all the memories that encumbered him.
Unbound (prompt 05 - hands are tied)
He had insisted that his hands were tied when it came to handling the Blake affair. Ordered to capture the Liberator undamaged, he could hardly blow Blake out of the sky. In reality, it was an excuse, an excuse Servalan probably saw through. Nothing as impersonal as a space battle would do for his purposes. In reality, he would only feel that his hands were completely untied under one circumstance: wrapping them around Blake’s throat.
Travis said that Cally’s luck ran out when she didn’t die. It was a kind of luck he understood intimately. At the time, he meant his words to have a biting irony. Later, with increasing experience and decreasing sanity, Travis came to accept them as the literal truth. Thus he viewed the final act as a sort of gift he could give to all of mankind - if they were lucky.
Party Time (prompt 19 - on the radio)
Travis sent Blake an invitation on the radio. He didn’t sign it, he didn’t specify a recipient, but both men knew what it was for. Unfortunately, he did not specify a time. Blake decided to show up unfashionably early. After all, Travis had crashed his political party years before.
A Simple Definition (prompt 09 - a stitch in time)
Giroc probably didn’t realize that she had doomed Travis to failure by using the words “the death of a friend.” For “friend,” Travis subconsciously substituted “liability.” He knew from the start that Jenna would be a liability. Had he thought of “friend” the way Blake did, as a token of good faith given by the universe, he would have bothered to find a food source for the mutoid. But had he thought of friend the way that Blake did, he wouldn’t have been accompanied only by a mutoid in the first place.
Redefinition (prompt 01 - flip side)
But then why did he try to get a response from her, calling her by her old name, Keyeira? Why taunt her by telling her she had been beautiful, admired? Why the disappointment at the lack of response, the disgust at the blood she consumed, when he knew very well the nature of mutoids? He had told Servalan that he preferred their company because the artificial arm gave him a fellow feeling. Yet it was that arm that marked his difference from them, that arm in which he carried all the memories that encumbered him.
Unbound (prompt 05 - hands are tied)
He had insisted that his hands were tied when it came to handling the Blake affair. Ordered to capture the Liberator undamaged, he could hardly blow Blake out of the sky. In reality, it was an excuse, an excuse Servalan probably saw through. Nothing as impersonal as a space battle would do for his purposes. In reality, he would only feel that his hands were completely untied under one circumstance: wrapping them around Blake’s throat.