The Price of Sight

[Das Wilde Wesen]

*Enriquehuman* is sleeping. Slowly *we* stood, careful to keep it's mind from resurfacing. *Enriquehuman* would become useless once it achieved realisation. Carefully *we* stand, plucking a knife from the bed-side table. *We* pocket it and unlock the door, leaving and heading down towards the engineering decks.

*We* know *Femalehuman* follows us, so *we* head deep into the less frequented levels. *We* know it pays *us* too much interest. Now *we*wait, standing still with *our* hands wrapped around the knife hidden in *our* pocket.

A few moments later *Femalehuman* arrives. *We* turn to face her, and reveal *our* true form. *Femalehuman* screams as it sees the purple light emitted from *our* eyes and scrabbles for the gun at it's hip. *We* employ knowledge of force and momentum to send the knife winging into it's chest. It falls back against the wall, *lifeforce* pouring from the wound.

*We* remember how *Enriquehuman* addressed *Femalehuman*. "No mercy... Hermana" *we* murmer. It gurgles, so *we* reach down to snap it's neck.

*Enriquehuman* is waking. Slowly *we* withdraw, allowing *Enriquehuman* to Regain control.

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[jammi]

Slowly I came to, struggling awake as if my mind had been caught in a swamp. I opened my eyes and peered around, aware of the fact that I wasn't in my room. I rubbed my eyes with one hand and glanced around. It looked like I was in the engineering department. I put my hands down either side of me to push myself up. One hand touched something cold, but soft.

I looked down and saw a body, the body of the woman in the bar. The knife was protruding from her chest, blood pooling around her. I screamed over and over, scrabbling away through the congealing pool. My shrieks echoed through the corridors, bouncing and reflecting. I felt certain that I had woken the entire station.

Abruptly my screams were cut off by the need to be sick, which came up a moment later. How had I ended up here? Who had killed the woman? I curled into a ball, the sickening acidic taste and smell of vomit in my throat and nose and shivered. Why was this happening to me?

I began to crawl away, until I felt my legs were steady enough to support me, then I began to lurch unsteadily away. I noticed I was leaving bloody footprints. I had to leave. To run again. They'd kill me if they found me. They would! I didn't do it, but they'd still kill me.

Eventually I made it back to my room, tearing the bloodied cloths off and stuffing them into a bag. I got changed then hurried away, clutching the bag to my chest as I left.

10 minuets later the Luz De Guia dropped out of Mindelo's docking bay. I had to get rid of the clothes and escape. A short distance from the Omega 49 jump hole I jettisoned the bag, hoping that no-one would ever find it. Then I jumped. There was no salvation. No escape. I knew this now.

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[jammi]

Now I'd jumped through and flown aimlessly away into the asteroid fields. After half an hour I cut the engines and killed all power save for live support. I was hidden behind a massive asteriod. No-one would find me.

Occassionaly I would hear the distant whispers of Titan patrols searching for me, their signals weak and distant. Slowly I drifted off to sleep, praying to the guiding spirits of Crete that the nightmares would leave me, if only this one time...

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