"Alpacas...?"
Jasmine's eyes darted from one to the other- a subtle, but piercing glare. After a few seconds she just rolled her eyes. "Confusing people..." she sighs resting her head on one arm, rolling the small metal ball on the table, her eyes hidden for a moment behind her hair. "If Dangen is dead, so be it. I haven't seem him in an age, anyway."
A slight blip came from the metal ball, and she stopped it instantly. "Uh...one moment, merci..."
She rested the ball upright, and three small legs unclasped silently from the edges, steadying it. The top half split and slid away, revealing a small but intricate projector, which soon projected a miniature figure of a human being, around 7 inches high. The hologram shifted and focused, in full color, on the figure, who seemed to look around disorientedly before she nodded to Jasmine.
Her hair glowed a dark blue-black, and her body was covered with a deep blue armor, smooth and bearing the same color as most Lane Hacker ships. Her eyes seemed to glow a strange blue as well, but her features seemed too perfect, as if her body wasn't even real.
"Bonjour, Lavinia, my dear...did you find anything?" The figure nodded. "They've been getting bolder. Scouting into the houses, e-even Liberty..." She looked around, a small wide-angle lens providing her vision in all directions.
"Liberty...that is quite a distance. You're right, they are getting bolder. Don't forget to have Hex help you with the work, you cannot manage it all on your own..what about the shipping?" "Regular transports in and out...the same cargo every time...uhm...and weapons, too..."
"Not anything serious, I hope?" "N-no...only ship-class."
"Good...I have to go, Lavinia. I'm somewhat busy."
The hologram smiled and nodded, her features flickering to...something else, not human but almost for just a moment. Jasmine touched the edge of the ball, and the hologram flickered out, the metal ball folding back together.
"Excusez moi for that, I prefer more subtle methods of communication, but my friend uh...lets just say, cannot grasp them. It is a long story...now, what were you saying?"
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what is cool? A basilisk.
