Sacrificing Sanity

[Szerano]

Espi entered, turned around, and waited for the thing to enter. "Have you always been like this, senor?" Derilos entered the elevator and pressed a floor button. "Always been like what?" he asked questioningly. "You know - Bending metal bars and all that." Derilos leaned back against the doors of the elevator. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "You corsairs...you are weak? Or strong? It is like asking a cruiser captain if he has the firepower to damage a station...Can't you bend metal bars?". Espi was amused. As if bending metal bars that should prevent people from escaping their cell is something that happens on a daily basis. "You bent the bars to an extent that I could actually exit the cell, senor. One would expect that those ... shouldn't be bent." Espi then seemed to be thinking for short while, and finally asked: "Who made you, senor? You are not human, I am certain of that ... What are you?"

The elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. Derilos quickly grabbed Espi and threw him to the ground and using his arm, Derilos was able to stop himself from falling. "I can assure you that I am human and nothing about me suggests not being human. Those bars were strong but how do you know you weren't able to o that, assumptions like that will definitely get you into the wrong situation." Derilos remained still through this quick talk his body facing away from Espi and his arm straight in an angle good enough to keep him from falling. Derilos flipped over now facing Espi and did a one arm frontal flip over him. "Don't underestimate yourself, the human body is capable of many things..."

"Si." Espi replied, while getting back on his feet. "Please this way." Derilos calmly stated. On this floor was a huge garden, plenty of vegetables and plants abounded and the roof was clear so you could look up into the next level but strangely there was stars and small planets on the next level of the ship so it was probably a projection screen. In the middle was a stone table set with only two chair both of which had what looked like very comfortable white with red lined pillows. The only way to get to it was to cross the bridge connecting the middle with the outer parts of this level as a water way divide them. Derilos walked over the bridge and waited for Espi to cross as well.

The Corsair crossed over the bridge, and looked around himself, astounded by the various tones of green surrounding him. "Some greenhouse you have here. I've never been in a place like this. I'm sure you know of Crete and how 'fertile' it's soil is. Well, this is the first time I see so many trees in one place. I see them in Zoner biodomes, but only from space. They never let me in, ever since that thing at Freeport Nine." Derilos gestured for Espi to take a seat and he took one himself. Derilos sighed and gazed around, "I must say even I am impressed by this garden, do you know why I have it?". Slowly sitting down, Espi was still observing the garden, while still focusing on the fact that he might be able to talk his way out of this before his sailors arrive to punch holes through the hull, endangering everyone on the ship including himself, and who knows what other allies or even other Corsair hermanos.

"So why all this?", the Corsair asked. Derilos leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table. "Why...what?" Espi leaned his back against the chair. "Well, some people say that everything happens for a reason. That's not exactly the way I work, but let's assume for now that it is like that... What is the reason for me being here, then? Or are you just running around Corsair space, disabling ships of bypassers?" Derilos took a few seconds to consider his answer, "Well, why not? I mean sure everything has a reason but..is that reason something you really want to know? It could change some things..." A robot came into the garden carrying some menu's. HE approached silently making sure his footsteps weren't heard. "Can I get you two gentlemen something?" it asked. Derilos took one of the menu's from the thing. Derilos responded quickly as if he'd been waiting for this moment. "Sure I'll have hmm...a hot choco? That will make my day thank you. Do you want anything?"

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