Gypsie looked at the container. You brought me... drugs? They're my favorite! How did you know? He hugged her.
Gypsie took a moment to think of what Isabelle said. Well, this ship is actually named after an old story of the ancient Greek. You see, Telemakhos was the son of Ulysses. He went on a voyage in search of his father, who had left for war in aide of his ally Menelaus, who had lost his wife to the trojans. That whole war, the first among humans, was caused by our beloved Goddess, because... well... she wasn't invited to a wedding. He looked at her Mind if I try some of these now?
- Mistress Pascal said that you are one of those people who can appreciate our "invention". Personally, I think that treating this as a simple drug is bad manners. She nodded and even helped charge the injector. - Sure. I have already warned you about its effects and side effects, so my conscience is clear. And I don't advise you to take more than one dose at a time. You can go insane with the sensations. You can't even imagine how broad a gesture of trust towards you is. The drug rarely leaves our society. As for the legend about Ulysses, I have heard a lot about her. I read it.
Isabelle warmly smiled and get a small gelatin capsule from her pocket, which was also filled with a blue glowing liquid. Then, without hesitation, she threw it into her mouth. - You are not the only on to relax. This is quite enough for me to relax but at the same time remain in a firm mind. - Learning to overcome the desire for a new and new dose is also part of the test that hardens the mind and body.
After these words, she injected the drug into Gypsie's arm, looking into his eyes. Once it was injected in the blood, the substance burned the veins a little from the inside, but the unpleasant sensation was soon replaced by a slowly coming pleasure. It seems that the drug does not work immediately.
The drug first kicked in full on Isabelle, but as it spread over Gypsie's veins, he started catching up. Suddenly something changed. Every part of their bodies felt double, the sense of touch was playing with their minds, or where they actually intertwining?
Isabelle's head soon became flooded with flashes of a bar scene. It didn't look like house space, everything was old and a bit dirty and untidy. Gypsie was having a drink with some other man. Suddenly, an alarm went off. The scene dissolved and in the middle of the blackness appeared a neutron star. Little blue lights started popping up in front of it, and then a larger one. The voice of Skripto could be heard in the background. Nomads? Attacking Puerto Rico? This time of the year?
The scene suddenly shifted to Baffin. There was a station next to the Tau 29 jumphole. Plenty of Zoner vessels where forming up and started their cruise engines. In the background, planet Eris and the Goddess Geode waited in the horizon. A rather robotic voice said: The Temporary Autonomous Zoners would like to welcome all of you to the first Baffin Council of Zoners.
A new scene popped up, Gypsie Skripto was furious in his office. Well tell Golanski he can stick it up his jumphole then! He smashed the telephone against his desk.
As the inner reflections continued, Isabelle noticed Gypsie was no longer sitting on the bed, but lying on it, in ecstasy.
Gypsie has seen numerous battles during Gallic war with Sirius. Battle after battle, inch by inch, the Crown's war machine advanced inexorably towards the capital of Bretonnia, leaving behind only a burnt out hell and grief. Then the greatest crime scene in human history broke out. Leeds burned and melted under impacts from orbit. Then another clouding and a new scene where Isabelle sits in the place of the main gunner, and the imperious figure of Juliet rises above her. Not in a simple pilot's overalls, but in a luxurious military uniform.
Then something happened. Everyone on the bridge panicked, and behind the panoramic windows, the silhouettes of Nomads, already familiar to Gypsie, appeared and incomparable whispers filled the space around. It was as if they were singing and many of the people on the bridge committed suicide in an attempt to end this torture for their minds...
The stage faded out, and now Isabelle sits on her knees in the middle of a temple hall, and the whispers around her was replaced by something similar to how believers describe angelic singing. She sits with her head bowed and a figure in a hoodie rises above her, but this is definitely not Juliet. Gypsie would have figured it out. "Atonement. We are in a step. Soon it is coming... We feel it. We must be stronger..." - whispered a figure in a hoodie.
Once again, the scene changed. Now the girl is again on board some large ship, all in the same gunner's place. - Countess de lorraine, the ships of the Order are approaching. What are we going to do?
The domineering figure of Juliet spoke: - Sabotage the reactor and make it look like a riot. The higher officer staff, leave the ship urgently!
It looks like Gypsie saw something unnecessary, or perhaps it was his own drug-inflamed mind that made up such a horrible story?
Gypsie grabs a pillow and covers his face while he screams. When Isabelle turns to see, he slowly uncovers his face and looks her in the eyes. You have seen them too! And Golanski, he too has harrased you!
Isabelle sat in the corner of the room, holding her head with both hands. It looks like she did not expect that everything would happen like this. - Banishers! Order! Monsters! Burn, burn them all for the name of the Light! - she screamed, digging fingers into her own face.
The scene gave Gyp a single moment of clarity which he used to stand up and approach the young woman. Wait! You're hurting yourself... He grabbed her hands and put them down, then he helped her to her feet. This is quite a powerful drug, isn't it?
A few minutes after that, she began to let go and the realization of what had happened gradually came to her mind. - Oh damn... I didn't think it was... Oh crap! This has never happened before... What did you saw there? Do you remember what you saw??