“What the jikogu is it?” I wondered aloud as we both moved to the nearest viewport and looked out on the wispy maroon, green, yellow and orange object moving towards the Lykopis.
My Co-Commander tilted her head and narrowed her eyes like it would let her see it better. I didn’t even make a smart remark; she was thinking and I had the big, busting belief that we needed all her strategic cells firing full roar at the moment.
“Let’s believe it’s Veema coming after you to slap you on the hand for insulting her mommy,” She pondered, “and trying to cut her throat as an aside. You wouldn’t have done it, would you?”
“Tecs aren’t all waves and energy fields,” I shrugged noncommittally.
“We know Veema can manipulate elements,” Rider continued, “Can she influence whole nebulas – or does she just want us to think that?”
I looked out the viewport again. “Looks like a nebula; acts like a nebula; must be a nebula.”
“Meaning it has lots of hydrogen and helium in it which control the ion field. My big question is what can it do to the Lykopis and us? Obviously Veema doesn’t care any longer if she takes you in alive so I don’t think whatever that thing is will be set on incapacitation mode.”
“Set fire to it,” I said.
“I think you hit your head too hard during the romping,” Comet Rider scoffed, “Remember, space is a vacuum; nothing burns out there. I’m sure they taught that in tec classes somewhere between ‘Holing a Path to Wealth’ and ‘How to Win at Anything via the Magic of Tec Manipulation’.”
“Comets burn,” I grinned, “that is when they get close enough to something or someone that knows the right buttons to push and, really, Rider, how different is one body from another in that respect?"
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