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[Myitt]

<You're just going to leave her there with Ossanlin's tail blade at her throat?> Tara demands.

<Yes,> Myitt replies curtly, pushing through the trees.  <She is not my responsibility.  I've made up my mind.>

Tara falls silent, mulling over the whole situation...the girl had tried to kill Myitt, maybe would have killed them both.  But she hadn't gone through with it...

<You think that's supposed to make me feel sympathy for that wreck of a creature?> Myitt asks testily.  <She can't live with us, she can hardly live anywhere but the Empire, she's been so badly brainwashed.  I know.>  She walks on in silence, hopping over a fallen log.  <Perhaps death would be a merciful thing for her.>

<And you've just washed your hands of it.  Great.  I'm so proud of you.>

<You want me to march back there and shoot her with your hands?> Myitt snaps back.

<No!  I mean...I don't know!> Tara cries.

<Then stop.  Stop judging my inaction as not caring.>

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Mike blinks.  "Well, Efaen, you can rest assure that the feeling isn't mutual," he replies.  "Just tell her, if she isn't listening, she can go ahead and continue to be a bloody great git all she wants.  If she'd prefer Imperial imprisonment over a nice stay at our fantastically dismal underground resort, then so be it, but we won't let her take you with her."

[Terenia]

Terenia blinks, wincing slightly. Evidently Efaen's response was a bit harsh.

"She...uh...said some rather unpleasant things about your mother," Terenia paraphrases, "and emphasized the fact that the rebellion is not a part of her plans in any way."

Terenia gnaws on her lip for a moment, glancing down on the floor. Seeming to reach a decision of sorts she takes a step forward, closing the distance between Mike and herself. "I don't know exactly how this..." she indicates the two of them, with a furtive glance towards the Yeerk Pool, "is going to work. But I am...I am glad that we are trying. I really, truly am. And...I want to thank you. For giving me a chance." She gives him a lopsided smile, "Even if I am crazy."

[Myitt]

Mike draws Terenia closer, placing his hands on her upper arms.

"You should tell Efaen not to insult my mum," he replies with a smile.  "Bad things might happen."

[Terenia]

Terenia's heart skips a beat as Mike touches her. In the back of her mind she finds herself wondering if this was wrong. She liked Corliss, after all, not Mike. But weren't they, in a sense, one and the same? Or was that stupid of her to consider? After all, she and Efaen were distinctly separate. But, then again, Mike and Corliss were both so agreeable...and the body was certainly the same. And that part was definitely agreeable...

Terenia was so caught up in trying to figure out if what she was doing was right or wrong that she very much surprised herself when she went through with it anyways. Leaning into Mike's body she pulled him into a kiss that felt...somehow easier than it should have been. She noticed Efaen was, once again, emmitting somewhat smug emotions from her corner of their shared brain.

[Chad32]

"What are you doing?" Jagill said from the open hatchway. He had never seen two Humans kissing before.

He had decided to go ahead and walk past the other Human, as she wasn't the one he wanted to talk to anyway, giving her a small wave as he passed to seem more friendly. But he had walked in on Corliss doing something with Terenia that had him perplexed.

[Myitt]

Mike kisses her back, his hands finding their way through her hair, down the small of her back...  

A rather significant part of his thoughts, the ones that aren't completely driven away by pleasure, wonders whether Corliss will mind him snogging the girl they both are infatuated with.

He doesn't have much time to consider, however, and he breaks away from Terenia, swallowing.

"Um," he squeaks breathlessly, staring at the Hork-Bajir.  "Nothing?"  He glances hesitantly at Terenia.

[Chad32]

"Uh huh. Temrash is busy, and I check up on things for him. I check on Myitt, and she fine. I check on you now. Anything new?"

[Terenia]

Terenia's reaction to Jagill's sudden presence is a bit more volatile. As soon as she and Mike part she pushes herself away from him, flushing pink.

"Nothing!" She cries hoarsely, as though waiting for him to admonish her, "We aren't doing anything!"

[Myitt]

"Good, good, Myitt is fine," Mike repeats blankly, glancing again at Terenia at her outburst.  "Okay.  We're great, yeah.  Just great.  We really don't need anything.  Nothing's new, it's really quite boring actually."  He smiles quickly, feeling completely embarrassed and flustered.  "You can go now."

[Chad32]

"Ok." Jagill said disappointingly. "Come Dara. We leave them alone to taste each other in private."

Now that that was done, he wondered what else they could do. "You want do anything, Dara?"

[Myitt]

Mike watches as Jagill leaves, wringing his hands anxiously in a manner that Corliss clearly had adopted. 

He looks back at Terenia again. 

"Sorry, I...should have closed the bloody thing," he murmurs lamely.

[Terenia]

If possible, Terenia turns even redder.

"Tasting each other?" She splutters, sounding as though the description makes her stomach churn. Inside her head, Efaen is chuckling.

"It-it's okay," Terenia finally manages to say, her voice oddly high-pitched, "It wasn't...I mean, it shouldn't have been...I mean...oh, damnit." She lets out a wordless cry of frustration at her inability to form coherent sentences.

[Myitt]

"No, no, it's okay," he says hurriedly.  "Really.  I...it was good, while it lasted." 

He smiles hesitantly.  "'Tasting each other'," he says, and then he giggles.

[Cobra (Gymn)]

Dara chuckled as he looked over Jagill's s shoulder. He had seen this a few times before and knew that it was embarassing to breakup. He followed Jagill. "Well, I personally want to get on with the rescue but I figure another day won't matter."

[Terenia]

A small smile spreads on Terenia's face at Mike's words, "Yeah," she giggles, then looks at Mike oddly, "You know...this is the first conversation I have had in...quite a long time with someone who is actually fully human. Odd, it's not much different from talking to a Yeerk. You and Corliss are really quite similar."

She bites her lip again. Which doesn't make this all that wrong...