Chapter 186: (Nakteti) (2/2)
Does every being in the Terran Confederacy live slightly outside their skin? Nakteti wondered.
”I have decided that, if you will allow it, I will help you recover your people's music,” the large saurian said. ”Or, if we cannot recover it, then build your own. Take a little here and a little from there from others and create something all new, a new fusion, all your people's own.”
”Why?” Nakteti asked.
The Saurian gave an odd chuckle. ”Because, like you, we know what it is like to have to rebuild everything. The Terrans, our friends, helped us rebuild, and so I will help your people.”
She leaned back. ”Besides, your movie needs a soundtrack. All good movies have a soundtrack.”
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When she got back to her hotel room Nakteti felt bruised. Her throat felt like it should be sore even after the soothing drinks. Her ears felt like someone had rubbed them against the fur of her head.
Sangbre watched her daughter come out on the balcony and swiped away the video she was watching on her palm projector.
”And how was your day, child of my heart?” Sangbre asked.
”Odd,” Nakteti answered honestly. She sat down and ordered up a fruity frozen drink and took a long sip off of it.
”How so?” Sangbre asked.
”I spent the day with a Rigellian female,” Nakteti said.
”Getting into body building, my dear child?” Sangbre smiled. ”You never struck me as the type who would enjoy lifting heavy weights for hours at a time.”
Nakteti frowned slightly. ”No, I was learning about music.'
”Just as well. As you're one of the younger sect you'd have to wear those terrible Nuke Chic fashions and I don't think you have the temperament for the leather chaps without buttock covering that are all the range among young Rigellians,” Sangbre smiled.
”You knew where I was,” Nakteti accused.
”There are two Tnvaru on the entire planet. It's not hard to keep track of my beloved daughter,” Sangbre smiled. She pointed at Major Carnight. ”Did she try to trade you for him or did she just outright try to steal him?”
”Huh?” Nakteti asked.
Sangbre's grin got wider. ”Rigellian females have a, shall we say, taste for Terran military males.”
Nakteti suddenly felt slightly nervous. ”You mean she would have eaten him?”
Sangbre snorted a laugh, almost spitting her drink out. ”Not... exactly. Although she may have expected to be eaten.”
Nakteti realized with some confusion that Major Carnight and Captain Manners were both bright red.
”I don't get it,” Nakteti said.
Sangbre's smile got wider. ”It's all right, light of my twilight years, don't worry about it because in Soviet Russia it get you.”
Nakteti wondered if her mother had been hitting the drinks too hard.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
so I says to Maybelle I says...
TVNRAU GELSTAT
Hello?
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BAH! Holy Divine Egg!
Where did you come from?
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URAVNT TLATSEG
?olleH
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TRAENA'AD HIVE WORLDS
SIS! Sis! Get in here!
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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
Let me see if I can clear their signal a little.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Man, just when I was getting to the good part.
SIS!
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
What are you bellowing about?
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TNVTALT GESARU
He?oll
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Oh, there you are. Come here, dear.
Don't be afraid. Nobody will hurt you.
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Try spiking the gain. It's a good distance.
I think we're going to have to put gestalt boosters along the Great Gulf to help these guys.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Don't be scared. We're all friends in here.
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TNVARU GEOLLOWS
Oh. Hi. I'm Tnvaru.
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Welcome to the clubhouse. You'll figure it out soon.
Mantid can help show you the ropes.
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TNVSTATL GEARU
.uoy Thank
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