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[humanparagon]

Alisa Shepard is, to put it bluntly, fucking exhausted. It's not only that she just came off of narrowly surviving what everyone - including herself - was certain was a suicide mission to stop humanity from being destroyed once again, although that's a good part of it. No, it's that somewhere along the line she went from Shepard the navy brat to

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[sciencepunching]

And coming down that hall is a woman who was a lot luckier in keeping her garments, who pauses at the sight before her - someone who looks very out of place, though Veronica will admit that the woman looks rather fetching in what bit of clothing she scrounged up.

The scribe raises a hand and waves, with just the smallest hint of a smile on her face. "Can't help but notice that you look a little lost."

[humanparagon]

The woman down the hall gets Shepard's attention before she speaks, and as nervous and unsettled as she is, the other woman is being polite, so Shepard can't get mad at her. Not really.

"Yeah. Can't help but notice this isn't my ship." Her arms fold beneath her breasts, a reflexive gesture, and her eyes narrow a little as she takes the other woman in. Shepard's barely dressed, but she's not going to let it bother her.

"You mind telling me what's going on?"

[sciencepunching]

Veronica looks around, then gestures to the building. "This is what the people I've met are calling a love hotel. Yanks us from where we're from and puts us here to get some action. I really wish I wasn't making this up - and I wish I could control it, 'cause I've got a list of people I know that could stand to get laid so they'd not be such big pains in the butt."

A pause.

"That's the general gist of things."

[humanparagon]

Suddenly this entire situation just got a whole lot more bizarre.

"... The hotel kidnaps people. For sex."

If that's not close to the top on her list of strangest things she's ever heard, she doesn't know what is. And Shepard won't admit out loud that it's been a long time since she's gotten any herself, not since before she died and came back. Maybe in some twisted way, it's appropriate she's here.

"Let me guess, no one's found a way out."