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Nathan, was somewhat relieved, to see others arriving! He left them.. He felt pleased, to have had the chat with Ocasa and genuinely felt, perhaps, some might be judging Ocasa a little too harshly. Cxao came in with Tanya, she glared at Ocasa, scowled. She watched Sobie pick up her cloak and head over to him. He stood up, left with her. "Well I'll." Muttered Tanya. "Sobie!" Nathan grinned. "She'll sort him out!” Tanya smiled. "Will she ever! Her sister is married to a Jogarth friend of Tovinak’s. Well I'll be!”
There was pandemonium on the various levels that temporarily housed the Kets. Their last night, together aboard Raptor before leaving for the Akademy? Liana and Desiree each had one of the levels organizing them. Commander Serenia, had once again, laid down the law with them, making it clear, there was to be NO TROUBLE. "Raptor is leaving in three hours time, If you've forgotten anything, or left anything on the surface, its your last chance to retrieve it."
No one, luckily, could think of anything they might have needed! "Yo Desiree?" "Yo, Li we're clear!” If the Kets were wondering about sleeping? Dees had, on Cistera’s instructions, flooded their sleeping quarters with a soft film of gas. Yawns all round and soon, snoring! They were all fast asleep, well, not quite all of them Some of them were in what Nathan referred to as the Arena below decks. Usually a massive storage area that they had adapted so that they could play the big screen with a massive strategy game devised by one of them. They could chose their character play the game. Winner takes all.
Dees had been aware of Ocasa taking a moonlight run with Sobie. She had told him he had an hour and that was it! Out in space they drifted. "Isn't that beautiful? So peaceful." They sat, cuddled, talked. "You know where I am. I'm not going anywhere. Come find me when you're ready to pick up where we leave off?" Ocasa kissed her, smiled. "We do have coms you know! Its not like I'm vanishing into, well wherever!
Its the Akademy! I doubt anything will happen of real interest there cept studies. I want to be a Venture Class Captain, with the Galacia Federa."
An hour later on the dot. The zimp docked. "OK Dees, loverboy is back! Time to fire up and burn baby!" Li grinned. Watching Ocasa as he led Sobie into the main corridor and back to the Shaker. A long deep kiss and he left her to head back to the domicile. Kets snoring their heads off! Minutes later he was fast asleep. Raptor gently accelerated into the deep darkness of space, headed towards the Satellite orbiting ‘Onica’ The planet on which could be found, the Kets Akademy.
“You’ll miss them!“ Cistera had been succinct and to the point as Nathan laughed. “You can say that again, I'm looking forward to some well earned, peace and quiet!.“ He glanced up, as Commander Serenia entered and Cxao moved to let her sit, whilst he fussed over her, fetching her refreshments. Corky poured him a glass of ale, he sat down, his face one of a totally relaxed chilled out individual “Just think, in a few hours, they’ll be unloaded, GONE! I get my power terminals back.
As for the arena, they installed. Have you seen that?” He was almost smirking “Damm terminals take up half the area. As for those recline units, what’s that all about?” Cistera watched as Kelvin came over. “They attach the sensors lie back and drift off to Ultra reality worlds whilst their bodies sleep they’re off doing battle or fighting Ikuku (dragons) or falling in love with some Binard babe.“
Cistera glared at him “I hope the Kets are NOT toying with Binards.“ She looked over to Nathan, who shook his head. “Don’t ask me, I didn’t install the gear, they did it all themselves.“ Corky sat up. “All of it?” “Yep told me, leave em to it, in no uncertain terms! Before they closed the hatches, they grabbed a couple of the Throx (worker tech.) drones, and didn’t come out for hours!” “Best bit of peace and quiet...” His voice tailed off as Cistera glared at him again.
Nathan was grinning as Kelvin tried, to weasel his way out of his, digging a hole for himself moment. “Kinda missed them, but obviously, enjoying whatever they were doing.“ “Well the whole installation, was, from what I saw, well installed and nothing out of place. Damm near perfect. Even Tovinak commented on it, when he went to put the power couplers on line. Tested the main flux units and that was that. No problems, no surges, nothing! Their adapting the forward screen array for their imaging was some of the best adaptive work he's seen. Some VERY smart tech Kets in amongst that lot, were his exact words!"
“Well that is, partly due to you Corky.” Nathan sipped his ale and smiled “They do, take notice of you, especially when it comes to tech stuff. “ He laughed. “Even if you’ve never used an Ultra Realt unit. I tell you, those Binards, are so dammed.” He was interrupted again, this time, Cistera was definitely being caustic. She faced Kelvin, her face flushed, with some real fury, in her eyes? “I think you, ought to check, they do NOT, or have NOT, installed improper connections!”
Nathan looked at Corky, rolled his eyes muttering back. “We will check to make sure.“ Corky whispered. “We??” “Anyways, best NOT do it, whilst they’re still onboard, they’ve made it off limits to us.“ Cistera’s eyes flared, as she screeched at them..“I MEAN SOON AS, like NOW! OFF limits.“ Minutes later Nathan was sat sipping on some of his favorite Iridian ale in Corky's chambers.
"Should be safe out of the way here! I restocked when I came aboard so we have plenty of drinks!" "Cadie! C'mon in. We're hiding out!"
He grinned. "Ale?" "I tell you, I am not going anywhere near OR doing anything re the Kets and those Realt units. Keeps em occupied!" Nathan started to laugh. "You won't be laughing if Cistera finds out!"
The next morning saw the activity of Kets moving around, preparing for departure to the Akademy. Most of the previous hostility, appeared to have died back, along with the noise ! Ocasa found Cxan stood over Princess Coleja of the Jogarth “It is here, I know it is.“ “Let me find it for you!“ He hissed, somewhat impatient? She was adamant, he was NOT! “Typical Jogarth female.“ She turned to look up at him, her face showing a frown, eyebrows raised, lips tight as she glared at him. “What’s that suppose to mean?”
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