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Date Posted: 18:55:05 04/27/02 Sat
Author: Victor
Subject: Floating aimlessly

Victor Mincuso leaned back in the black leather chair. He twirled his pistol around his index finger, over and over, just starring at it, his mind elsewhere. The pistol itself was of custom build, having an extra large power chamber resting on the side, laser sight, digital lock-on, and a red happy face just below the barrel. Its rounds consisted of energy particles that were silent, invisible to the naked eye, and cooked holes through almost anything. Lying against the chair was micro-sharpened katana�

Victor was a bounty hunter as well as part-time mercenary and otherwise man for hire. In fact, when it came down to it, he was basically a jack-of-all-trades. His present location was adrift in space, as his spacecraft, Stingray II, was out of fuel. Such was the life of the bounty hunter, living from job to job, and when you didn�t get that next job�well, things like this happened. Victor had sent off a distress signal, but since no one was in the immediate area, he would either have to wait for a ship to come by, or till he drifted close enough to civilization.

He was pretty young, at the age of twenty-five, yet he was experienced�he had the scars to prove it, the most evident one was a line running down the side of his face that was most often covered by his dark hair that reached down to his chin. Victor wore an all-black suit with a white tie being the only change in color; under his suit-coat he kept other devices and weapons hidden away for safekeeping and from his top pocket hung a pair of dark sunglasses. However, Victor�s brown eyes showed a surprising softness for his otherwise hard-looking appearance. Perhaps that was the reason for the shades�

The Stingray was a pretty nice ship, especially after considering that Victor had trouble keeping it filled with fuel. It had twin ion engines on either wing, each which had a point on the end that went out towards the nose of the craft. The actual body was a long cylinder that came to a long point at the noise, and had stabilizing wings in the back incase the ship was taking into a planet�s atmosphere (something it was fully capable of doing). It was painted a metallic red, but was covered in numerous places with different sayings and pictures that Victor had found amusing to place over his ship.

Victor had been to many places recently, and many things had occurred, including a small encounter with a monkey filled planet that seemed to be at war. His passing by had been a last ditch effort to get some cash and fill up his ride, but after seeing the conflicts below and a scan of the surface that informed him that they did not have the materials he needed. So, he made a gamble and tried to make it to the next inhabitable planet. That brings us to the present�

�But Victor�s thoughts were still elsewhere.

��James�

Mike�

�

�Sara�� he murmured out-loud. A single tear fell down his face and fell to the floor splashing against the metallic floor.

It had been the start of a very long day�

�Now I wait here broken,
Waiting to see you,
Eyes wide open.�
-Wake, East West

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