Terry Mixon wrote: > >>> Looking over his shoulder he asks Ilane, "Would you care to > >>> join us Sianna, or would you rather wait out here?" > >> > >> She smiles again, a bit more warmly this time. "Actually, I'd > >> like to join you if I may. Shawn is sort of 'teaching me the > >> ropes' of freight acquistion this afternoon." > > > > There is a change in Rosco's expression, Ilane can't tell if he's > > more excited or more nervous, but Ilane joining them in his office > > seems to have affected him *somehow*. > > > > "Yes, yes!" he says, "Hee, yes. Of course. Do come in, then." > > Shawn kept his merchant smile in place but his alarm bells were > ringing. > > > Ollis's inner office is nothing special. It is just a cube of space > > with a desk, computer terminal, filing cabinet, and stacks of > > papers on every available flat space. There are no windows or any > > wall decorations, except for a photograph of a ship. A ship that is > > clearly the /Mae Lee/. There are three chairs on one side of the > > desk and one behind it. To the desk's left there is a closed, > > unmarked, door. > > > > Ollis takes the chair behind his desk and says as he reaches out > > to lay a framed photograph on his desk face down, "Please sit down. > > Yes, yes!" > > Shawn noted the picture as Rosco reached for it and it drew his > artist's eye. He might not get a great look at it but he tried to see > in general what it was. Pictures told a lot about people. You get only a *very* brief look, but you'd swear it was a photo of Ilane, perhaps a younger Ilane. > > "Now!" he leans back and looks at Shawn, "Si Smith, didn't I see in > > the vids the other day that you and your crew are the heroes of > > Sequi for your exploits during the recent flooding?" > > Shawn pulled up a seat. > > "I don't know about that. We did what we could to help. I just wish I > knew more about why it happened." > > Press a little and see if anything shakes loose. > > "How have you been, Si Ollis? I see that Ilane has the same effect on > you that she has on all members of the male house. It looked like you > thought you knew her." "Yes, well." Ollis pauses and looks at Ilane, "Yes. She re..reminds me of someone I knew once. Just a bit of a shock to see someone you think you know and then find she not only isn't, but that she's a member of the Moby..." Rosco has the good grace to actually look a little embarrassed to say, "...ur, Moby clan." "But it's a big universe and everybody has a double somewhere, right?" Eris AKU GM
