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[KitsuneMarie]

Tora blinks at Corliss's sudden collapse and walks towards him. "One fighter is mine," she tells Myitt as she kneels beside Corliss.

[Midnight_Huntress]

Keeping her focus, Silver managed to get an answer to Gaz. "There's no way in the seven hells the CG will see this shuttle." She stuggled to say. "Ill be....damned if they.....do."

[Terenia]

Freed from Corliss' grip, Terenia half lurches, half tumbles away from him, falling to one knee. Tightening her grip on the Dracon Beam in her right hand she thumbs the dial up to one of the highest settings. Glancing back she sees Corliss' crumpled form and grimaces slightly at his pain.

"Sorry..." she murmurs, but her gaze has already shifted back to Keshin's unconscious form. Using her free hand to push her up into a standing position she points her Dracon Beam at the bounty hunter. Her arm is visibly shaking, and her eyes have a glassy, wild look to them. Her finger tightens around the trigger, but she does not pull it yet. Her gaze flickers between Ossanlin and Corliss and Myitt - the three people she actually has some sort of allegience to, however small.

"Will someone please give me one damned good reason why I should incinerate this dapsen filth right now!?" She cries, looking from person to person for some sort of direction, trying to understand why they hadn't already taken care of the issue.

[Shenmue654]

Joanne's breathing stabilizes slightly as her body responds to the nanites. She also stops thrashing for thr most part, her hand falling at her side. Her complexion and general posture still don't look to be in good shape at all, but it's clear that she might survive for a little while longer. A static charge briefly runs through her, and then shuts off again. Her body is losing control of itself. 

Keshin reacts to this gesture in surprise. He can tell the body has eased up quite a bit from where it was before. Someone must have attempted to help them. <Hmn...maybe it was Salem. If someone else doesn't shoot us...maybe there's a slim chance that he'll get us to the right ship. I suppose I'll wait and see.>

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin huffs in frustration as he turns his shredder from Salem to Terenia.  <Terenia...if you kill Keshin now in cold blood, you're no better than him, that's exactly what he did to you.  You've made so much progress lately, don't throw it all away!  Keshin will get what he deserves...don't destroy yourself for him...>

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Salem continued to try to lift Joanne, in spite of Terenia's Dracon all but pointed at him now. He finally managed to get his arms under her body and, with a struggle, lift it into the chair. She was basically dead weight at this point. He still didn't say anything. He was hoping one of Terenia's friends could dissuade her from firing. If he wasn't practically in his ship, he'd use one of his little EM devices, but he didn't want to risk damaging the craft, or harming Al. He didn't have time to try to talk Terenia down, and she had no reason to listen to him. She didn't know him.

On the other hand, he'd learned a bit about her by listening to Keshin and Temrash talk about her. Funny how easy it was to pick her out of a crowd. He wondered if he could use that to his advantage. If there was one thing he'd picked up from Al over the years, it was a flair for the dramatic. A plan was beginning to form in his brain.

<<Al, when I say go, can you thought-flood the loud sassy chick with the gun? One second burst, then let up.>>

<<Aye aye, captain,>> Al responded, sounding incredibly bored with the whole situation.

[Myitt]

Myitt nods, standing up and stepping away from Joanne while Salem pulls Joanne's prone body into the chair.  

She turns to Terenia, also putting herself in the path of the gun.

"This creature just tried to kill me, and my host," Myitt grates.  "Do you really think I want to save his life?  Better to let him die and save us all the trouble.  That's what I came here to do, in the first place.  I'm just pointing out the facts; I have no way of determining where his ship is."  She shrugs.  "It would save him a bit of pain, I suppose."

Corliss coughs and curls up on the ground, squinting up at Tora through watery eyes.

[Cobra (Gymn)]

Remembering that ships have shields and that was the strange wall I stood up and walked over to the guy whose name was Cody. I started sniffing his shoe. I can learn a lot about a person from the smell of their shoes.

[Chad32]

Cody couldn't really think of anything to do, and was thinking about just returning to the bar. Then that dog started sniffing his shoe. "You had better not pee on me Rover, or I'm having dog for lunch." He said. Though at least the thing wasn't jumping on him and trying to lick his face. "So Tamora, you want to head inside the bar? Or maybe go somewhere else?"

[Terenia]

"Teresa isn't in the bar," Tamora says, "I thought you wanted to try and solicit her help. Knowing her, she'll be wherever the latest trouble is. I'll go back to the bar; if you want to try and get something accomplished with her you'll have to go by yourself."

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Terenia nods grimly, emboldened by Myitt's apparent approval of Keshin's death, despite the fact that she is now standing in the Dracon's pathway. She steals a glance at Ossanlin.

"I'm sorry, Andalite," she says, sounding strangely sincere despite the anger that is still prevalent in her tone, "but I can't see how the turelek's survival will help anyone out. He's already tried to murder several of us. We let him go and how long until he comes back fresh, with a new list and a vendetta against the hits he's missed? He tried to kill me, he tried to kill Corliss, he tried to kill Myitt, he did kill Myitt's friend and he almost killed you, even though you weren't a target. Can't you see how dangerous he is?"

Terenia keeps her Dracon beam leveled at Keshin, despite Myitt and Salem being in the way.

[Cobra (Gymn)]

Satisfied that Cody was okay I jumped upand tried to lick his face to show my goodwill.




Dara watches as Silver concentrates. Whatever she was doing was taking a lot out of her. He wondered if there was some way he could help but didn't want to upset her concentration by asking. In the end he just sat there.

[Chad32]

"I guess I should go look for her." Cody said about Terenia. "It would be tough with a bum leg, especially if she happens to be feeding her host, but I guess I could fire up Sukohn's bug if that doesn't wind up worrying too many people."

"No! Down boy! Down!" He yelled at the dog when he jumped up. It was as if he read Cody's mind about being grateful the dog wasn't jumping on him, and was tempting fate just to see if Cody really would kill him.

He started walking towards where he remembered the bugfighter was to try to find Terenia from the air.

[Aluminator (Kit)]

Salem rolled his eyes when Myitt spoke. Everything she'd said was true, but he hadn't expected her to just come out and say that Keshin ought to be put down. He muttered to Myitt, "Just tell me which ships I need to check. I don't have time for this."

He looked directly at Terenia as he began to slowly move Keshin down the ramp. He switched to thought-speech and tried to keep his expression stoic, giving no outward impression that he was speaking to her. He hoped he understood her well enough to get under her skin. He might be able to make her hesitate long enough to get Keshin out of there. <<The reason Keshin is still alive is because the people around you are not your friends. They're using you, Terenia. You know that, I think. Find the client. The hunter is not your problem. If you kill him, though, I'll be your problem,>> he said, now attempting to sound more sinister. <<Your so-called friends can't protect you from me.>>

<<Now,>> he said to Al. Al immediately sent a thought-speak communique to Terenia; a cacophony of noise and a blinding array of light and hundreds of images. The signal was dominated by a bone-chilling scream and images of death and destruction. Salem's hope was that this one-second burst would be short enough to give the right impression, without giving Terenia time to begin to process and ignore it.

[Myitt]

"You're right, we don't have time for this," Myitt mutters, showing Salem the display of widely-spaced red dots amidst a mixture of grayed out shapes.  Yeerkish text hovers next to each signal.

Corliss is still on the ground.

<And you like this girl?> Mike gasps, cursing at the pain.

<Why would humans develop something so incapacitating!> Corliss demands feverishly. 

[KitsuneMarie]

Tora compresses her lips as she watches Corliss a moment. Finally, she pats his shoulder and stands, watching Myitt's screen from where she is standing. Twenty-one minutes remaining in morph, she reminds herself. "Let me know if you would like my assistance," she tells Myitt. "I will return shortly."

With that, she turns towards the edge of the clearing, where she intends to demorph.