With the decision made for the trial to go forward, arrangements are made. The stranger claims an unused section of the station, and with his bizarre "ship" he peels open the compartment like a tin can, somehow without letting any of the air escape at all. Ever-so-carefully a marble cube, seven feet on a side and covered in inexplicable ( Read more... )

Who: Cain and Mary Weather
What: The two of them have spent so little time together recently. Cain decides to make it up to her.
Where: Cain's makeshift lab in one of the storage blocks
Warnings: None.

( Your teacher is a witch. And not very nice. )

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Summary: Maryweather is laid up in the infirmary following the Protean Berserker attack. As much as she complains about her brother's overprotective nature, she's kind of sad he wasn't there this time.

( Hey little girl/where will you hide/who can you turn to now? )

Ever since Meteo Spiderbeam had vomited it out of his perfectly manicured mouth, something had gone slimpfing in a spluddled pile through the disused corridors of Senburu-Trati'salan. It was small as yet, easily mistaken for a puddle of grime and unmentionable things best left avoided. That was the way it liked things, if it could be said to "like ( Read more... )

Who: Maryweather, Sheeana
What: Mary begins her Bene Gesserit training
Where: The Utility segments, basically where she met Sheeana last.

( Let them dance around us in sweet song while we train )

To call it 'disorienting' to wake up this way would be quite the understatement. In fact, to call it anything short of horrific was probably an understatement, or so Maryweather thought. When she fell asleep, she had been in bed, safe and warm and comfortable. Here, the lights were too bright, far too artificial, and she groaned as she covered her ( Read more... )

The mission (some had objected to the semi-military terminology but noone could think of a clear alternative;'outing' sounded too much like an old person's stroll and 'incursion' sounded like Fay'lian propaganda) had been a milk run. They had come down in their blinking starships to sole inhabited system in universe 6R-Yit'sal, to a culture barely ( Read more... )