Between Worlds

[Caliban]

"Between Worlds"

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Hours passed. I shut that freak away to have some quiet. Of course, I never could afford that luxury. I killed off the engines to conserve fuel. I didn't know for how long would I be stuck in this place. Hours? Days? I took off my seatbelt and leaned forward, scratching the front of my visage. The face that covers the person that I am. I am the embodiment of insanity to anyone Revenant has ever touched. Sometimes I would wonder if I was the one to have something against her first or if she did. Her compliments to me always end up eventually in a singular sentence.

You're a monster.

Maybe I am...but what would that make you, Raven? No saint, that's what. That's...what I would tell her many times. But she always saw her innocence, lacking any guilt in her actions. And that just...that just -

Odd place you've chosen. Couldn't you have picked a more ehm. Sunny place? You know...we're pale as f*ck but we don't have to go all albino.

That prick was listening the entire time by the looks of it. Crouched with his back leaned against the cockpit glass. He made do with what little space there was. Still wearing that stinking jacket he used to have before...before I decided to come along. His eyes were bright as ever - he might've snuffed it, but that optimism didn't. He looked up to me as if I was someone worth interacting with. After everything I've done. There was no point to hide my thoughts. "My" thoughts...'course they're not mine. They're ours.

You know, you've got some nerve. Why don't you go back in my head and stay quiet a little longer while I get ourselves to safety?

Maybe my tone wasn't as pleasing to the ear as I initially thought. Nobody could blame me for it, though. Everyone else would call me insane - again - for talking to the cockpit glass, if they could see me. Although, part of me really did want to have someone to talk to other than the sociopath in my head.

Right! Right...l-look, I'm sorry. I was just trying to raise the spirits here, Jesus. Besides, there are few other things we can talk about in this place - which is virtually nowhere. I squint my eyes at him behind the helmet in confusion. The second I open up my lips to respond, he continues. Like the whole Ordeal we've been through. Me in my time, and you in...well, yours. And let me tell you we really had it rough. There is no reason to make it harder, though.

I answered the same way one would expect. I didn't know what or where he wanted to go with that statement. This whole "ordeal" was nothing short of a disaster, but it was at least close to being over.

What are you suggesting? That I open up shop in some backwater system and just do "science"? I don't have a PhD in xenobiology or xenoarchaeology.

I was pretty blunt with my words, to be fair. There wasn't much to go on considering my reputation within the Houses. It wouldn't matter where I'd go. I gave everyone a reason to point fingers at me and shoot.

First off, you're me. You have to know something about aliens! Second, I actually thought about everything that happened between you and Raven's...friends, let's call them for once? Not pets. Friends. he knew I was going to call them that way. Either I've started to be quite predictable, or he can read my mind. Both of them would be reasonably possible. We've been through a lot. And knowing that one of us might bite the dust in the end is really unnerving, don't you think?

I nodded, supporting my head against my right shoulder as I leaned back on the chair, stretching a bit as I did. We continued the conversation as normal. There was nothing I could do anyway. Hitting him would mean nothing anyway.

All I could do was listen, and that is what I did. Not like there was anything else to do given the circumstances. In this place, I had no map to speak of or knowledge to navigate an empty shell of a System. Would it even be considered a system if there was nothing to be seen in the first place? Not even a sun?

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"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."

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