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| − | "'Kay ...[[ | + | "'Kay ...[[Episode 501: Shakedown Cruise, Special Features#HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN|''Dierma!'']]" I bit my tongue on the rest and managed to lace my fingers behind my neck. "I hope this is good enough. I don't think I can go any farther."<br><br> |
''Wuss'', snarked my inner critic. ''Shut up, you. Just taking his advice''. I held still so Arden could wrap my ribs. ''Oh, yeah? You've lost your edge, gotten all gooey and soft. How else could a ten-year-old girl get the drop on you? Admit it, you're whipped''.<br><br> | ''Wuss'', snarked my inner critic. ''Shut up, you. Just taking his advice''. I held still so Arden could wrap my ribs. ''Oh, yeah? You've lost your edge, gotten all gooey and soft. How else could a ten-year-old girl get the drop on you? Admit it, you're whipped''.<br><br> | ||
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| − | "Why do you think that just because she's a street kid now, that she never got training back when? Do you remember what we learned on St. Albans? That the Academy that trained Joshua was no longer in operation but most of the people involved with it—as well as some of the students—went off on their own, formed something called Aegis? Who's to say | + | "Why do you think that just because she's a street kid now, that she never got training back when? Do you remember what we learned on St. Albans? That the Academy that trained Joshua was no longer in operation but most of the people involved with it—as well as some of the students—went off on their own, formed something called Aegis? Who's to say she wasn't one of them? And as the next generation model, why shouldn't she be better?"<br><br> |
| − | It didn't take a big leap of imagination to think of how | + | It didn't take a big leap of imagination to think of how Mish had gotten away from Aegis if she were of a mind.<br><br> |
"What I want to know is what she was doing on that station?"<br><br> | "What I want to know is what she was doing on that station?"<br><br> | ||
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| − | "[[ | + | "[[Episode 702: Brand New Day, Special Features#HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN|''Absolutna'']]." I slid off the table as gently as I could to spare my ribs and said once I got my feet on the deck. "It's a mess, Arden. I don't know where this is going but it's not impossible that we're heading toward a war involving augmenteds against augmenteds on both sides--because sooner or later, the Feds won't allow the corporate faction to have their own augmented army. And before that happens, both factions will throw their augmenteds at ''us''. How the hell do you fight that kind of war?"<br><br> |
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I stood there in my bathrobe and tried to think it through.<br><br> | I stood there in my bathrobe and tried to think it through.<br><br> | ||
| − | ''Pax and Miranda ...the Academy that altered Joshua and River and Volker ... the Chempliant that ruined Mike ... Valerie and the Blue Sun hunters at her Osiris clinic ... Queenie on Muir ... Kappa, the Operative, and their captives on St. Albans ... Raven and the Blue Sun hunters on Beaumonde ... the Elect in the Core ... the advent of intelligent Reavers and Mike's weird call ... the unseen cargo on Lacy and their effect on Joshua's mental and physical state ... | + | ''Pax and Miranda ...the Academy that altered Joshua and River and Volker ... the Chempliant that ruined Mike ... Valerie and the Blue Sun hunters at her Osiris clinic ... Queenie on Muir ... Kappa, the Operative, and their captives on St. Albans ... Raven and the Blue Sun hunters on Beaumonde ... the Elect in the Core ... the advent of intelligent Reavers and Mike's weird call ... the unseen cargo on Lacy and their effect on Joshua's mental and physical state ... Mish and her abilities, hidden behind the facade of a ten year old girl'' ...<br><br> |
It was a trail of breadcrumbs that stretched out behind me for years but try as I might, I couldn't anticipate when or where the next breadcrumb in the trail would fall. My fingers itched for pen and paper, for a way to lay it out on something I could take in with a glance. I could better discern a pattern then, and from the pattern a trajectory, a direction, a ''gorram '''clue'''''.<br><br> | It was a trail of breadcrumbs that stretched out behind me for years but try as I might, I couldn't anticipate when or where the next breadcrumb in the trail would fall. My fingers itched for pen and paper, for a way to lay it out on something I could take in with a glance. I could better discern a pattern then, and from the pattern a trajectory, a direction, a ''gorram '''clue'''''.<br><br> | ||
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''Been there, done that'', I didn't say. I let my laugh serve as an answer and went aft to seek my bed and the man waiting for me there.<br><br> | ''Been there, done that'', I didn't say. I let my laugh serve as an answer and went aft to seek my bed and the man waiting for me there.<br><br> | ||
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