Linus' Lackadaisical Logs

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And the BWT turned out to be everything Linus had hoped it would be. Spacious, shiny, well-armed, hard to disrupt, and not bad to look at, either. The first couple of weeks of happy hauling, he got stopped by more than one admirer who wanted to know what the gorgeous ship was and where they could get one, too. Aaaaand they did. Within a month, it seemed every smuggler and his grandma was flying a BWT...which wasn't itself a bad thing.

However, in time, the excitement of flying the pretty new machine began to wear off, and Linus started to get lonesome for his good 'ole Mammoth. The Liberty heavy transport couldn't hold as much Plutonium as the BWT, didn't have as many guns, was easier to disrupt, and wasn't as pretty...but in the time it'd taken Linus to save up the money to buy the larger ship, the smaller one had come to feel like home.

Finally, on a routine run of goods from Rheinland to Bretonia, Linus sat back in his chair and looked over at Kali. "You miss 'er too, don'tcha?" The black cat looked up from the warm console upon which she was sleeping, and yawned with a soft "mrrrf". "Yeah, me too..." Well, an' what's to stop me from gettin' her back? With Eris' room an' everything. I have enough money, an' I'll be passin' near Cali Minor anyhow.... "Yeah! We're gonna do it, Kali girl."

The cat got up and went to her litterbox.

"Yeah, we're gonna get the hairy 'ole Mammoth back..."

Two days later, they were happily situated again. As fickle fortune would have it, nobody had ever purchased Linus' Mammoth...of the two prospective buyers that'd expressed interest, one was violently allergic to the cat hair in the filtration system, and the other had suddenly come into an inheritance that allowed them to buy a Whale instead. So, Linus did indeed get his hairy 'ole Mammoth back in the end.

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