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Date Posted: 09:23:15 08/31/02 Sat
Author: Tenji .y. Keff
Subject: =|=
In reply to: Keff 's message, "--" on 22:35:08 08/23/02 Fri

The ships warning of someone getting nearer makes Keff almost leap twice his height. The dull wall before him almost as quickly dissolves as he binds himself to the ship, a strong feeling of it's awareness seeping into his mind. Switching to the hangar's cameras he can see the Grey Tokathe stalking towards the ship on all fours, his pilot's expression somewhat odd. Without hesitation he opens the starboard entrance and lets go of most of the ship's control units, padding out of his lair towards Tenji's location.
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As the entrance opens up with no one in sight Tenji walks towards it, a broad grin on her face. It had been an effort enough to walk on her two's out of the Inn and then get herself to here. Her eyes narrow and she tries not to snarl at the thought of the brown she had 'met'. Once she enters the PhiaShip she notices how little illumination was in there. Only the floorlights turned on. Looking up the short and narrow hallway she spots nothing out of the ordinary so she stalks down it towards the only sleeping quarters there were. A few steps later she not only feels Keff but can feel his mood. With a groan she turns her head, looking back, and spots the small Phia. "I must say that you look ridiculous wearing your cloak like that. No matter what you do outside of my domain I am not going to have you represent this Ship like a clown." Tenji sighs, wondering if she should tell him why exactly her cloak was tied around her shoulders and chest. "Drank a bit too much and almost ended up going to my old home where I met a rather hostile brown.." Without moving Keff replies varily "You broke his heart earlier?" Tenji's ears snap forward and she grins. "I wish. It wasn't anything personal."
"Oh, you meet a 'hostile brown', come home looking like a fool and call it 'nothing personal'?"
"Keff.. he was going to mug me. My clothes under the cloak are soaked in blood and I'm still trying to figure out how I escaped."
Despite Tenji's bitter sound she can feel his enthusiasm in her own mind. "Wow! He attacked you! What did you do? How did it end? Tell me everything!"
With a grimace Tenji wonders how he could possibly be so interested in a streetfight when he could listen to his Phia friends boast of their much more sophisticated (or so she thought) PhiaShip combats.
"I ran away Keff. He leaped from an alley I was too stupid to pay attention to and hammered into my shoulder while seizing with his taleblade for my throat. I twist, trying to face him and his blade cuts my other shoulder. Somehow I manage to get rid of him and run."
"You ran from a fight like a coward?" he asks in a disapointed voice.
"Keff.. I had been drinking and it's not very good for co ordination. I'm a grey, not a black nor brown. We can't match the browns' brutal strength when our body isn't obeying."
A mewing laughter echoes into her mind "Sheez! You must've been acting like a lagging ship! Why would anyone want to do that?"
"Beats me.. But I think I need to get some sleep."
"Are you going to sleep in this condition?"
"You said I only looked like a clown so yeah, I think my condition needs me to sleep."
"If I see a spot of blood anywhere tomorrow you will clean it up."
"Good night Keff.."
Tenji straightens her neck and walks forward, her frontlegs feeling incredibly stiff after standing still for so long. Once entering the room she falls into what she considered a too small bed. Within seconds she was asleep, now unable to notice the blood seeping through her cloak and into the bedsheets.
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Keff pads back to his little lair where he settles upon assigning the Ship to browsing the net for information on his peculiar pilot while he himself looks at the endless resources of information on weaponry. The silence was complete, nothing but slight rustling of Tenji audible every now and then.

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