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Post by dakota on Mar 9, 2006 20:57:52 GMT -5
" A traitor?" Both the young soldier looked at each other before one of them spoke. " Miss, you've got your wires crossed. We were just tranferred to General Sung's command from Ironheart."
Shep's got a sickened look on his face as his hands were freed, but he was quiet for a change.
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 9, 2006 21:07:57 GMT -5
"You're going to need a better explanation than that, soldier." Mary answers "And you." She says to Shep. "Why so quiet? I thought you had an opinion about everything?"
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Post by dakota on Mar 9, 2006 21:56:24 GMT -5
" I'm just trying to make sense of all this, same as you." Shep replied, gathering his weapons. "
" I'm telling you the truth lady." The talkative soldier replied, pulling a sheet of paper from his utility belt slowly. " Here's my transfer orders." He held it out to Marianna.
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 9, 2006 22:23:26 GMT -5
Marianna whips the order out of his hand, reads it, then lets it fall. "You two have until the count of now to run for your lives. You hesitate, and Gantry will be the least of your concerns."
She waits a second, then barks, "RUN!"
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Post by dakota on Mar 9, 2006 22:29:07 GMT -5
The pair jumped at her shout, and took off running into the woods. Shepherd laughed and shook his head as he doublechecked his eclips. " They might stop when they hit the border. So what do you think? Are they for real?"
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 10, 2006 10:41:08 GMT -5
Mary doesn't answer them. Instead, she turns for Westvale. "I don't know why I even bother. You couldn't figure out how to empty water from a boot if the instructions were written on the heel, with an arrow pointing to them*." She grunts, making her way. "Now, you can stand there and be a target, and explain Gantry's lineage in that village."
*(ooc: you have to figure, after centuries of using this, someone would have thought of the arrow simplifying the process of finding the instructions. There was an entomological theory (by the scholars of Lazlo) that the person who came up with the arrow did not, himself, fully understand the premise of the joke, and that, infact, the joke applied to him so well, that only a more elaborate version could be used from then on. The truth of the matter was that the originator of the arrow worked for Johnson's Signworks (In charge one "one-way" signs) in Windsor, Ontario, and was really angry at his parents for not understanding the purpose of a garbage re-atomizer explained, with scant actual detail of purpose, in that month's edition of Scientific American.)
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Post by dakota on Mar 10, 2006 20:03:35 GMT -5
" Aw, c'mon Mar, don't be like that." Shep replied as he fell in step. " Yeah, I admit I knew Daryn is Gantry's son, but I didn't know what he was up to and didn't recognize him. Hell, I haven't seen the guy in five years, and my memory isn't that great after my visit to the Pecos..."
He fell silent for a few minutes before asking. " So why did you come back for me anyways?"
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 10, 2006 20:11:49 GMT -5
"I thought you had the sense not to let your friends be lead here and still be defenseless." Mary responds, cooly.
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Post by dakota on Mar 10, 2006 20:20:23 GMT -5
" Thats cold." Shep replied. " You're lucky I don't give you another swim in the creek."
" Too bad we don't have time, I might have even joined you." He added suggestively.
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 10, 2006 20:24:55 GMT -5
Mary sighs annoyedly. "I don't think you'ld even be good at that." She says. "No matter how often you run that idea through your mind, you're not going to see it happen." Se responds.
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Post by dakota on Mar 10, 2006 20:38:31 GMT -5
" Why not? What's so bad about me? I'm a little older, but is that so bad?" Shep countered, stepping up so he was walking along side of her. " Honestly Mar, I mean you're the one who started the flirting."
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 10, 2006 20:46:55 GMT -5
"It's Marianna. Unless you would prefer Sargeant Smith. And, quite frankly, before I met, I had believed you were charming. Now, you're just another jerk with a gun." And she keeps a brisker pace towards town.
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Post by dakota on Mar 10, 2006 22:01:46 GMT -5
Shep started to say something in his defense, but decided not to and dropped back behind her lead with a dejected look on his face.
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Post by Renekin Skywalker on Mar 10, 2006 22:27:53 GMT -5
Grumbling about how no-one in the army talks to each other, Mary tries to figure out why Psi-bat would have wasted her time. Surely they must have known what was what, here.
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Post by dakota on Mar 11, 2006 5:26:29 GMT -5
After a short quiet walk, the Shep and Marianna quickly reach the outskirts of Westvale
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