Kris looked past Gorbech at Makarus. "M-makarus, are you alright?"

"My point is, why were we not told? Martin was just impaled by the Skorin, and thats who we were told to kill during the battle."

(Last post. Good night.)

Makarus took offense to the term "Idiot".

"Yes, I'm alright." Makarus told Kris. "Look. I realise that it wasn't a good idea to morph into that 'skorin' where I did. But, If I'm to morph into it other times, I need a memory to build on." Makarus looked at the knife. "I am Velvetoss. It's what we do." he stopped. "Now. Can we put away the weapons? I don;t want anyone to get hurt. Maybe it'll help if I...?" Makarus streatched tall and his face blurred. When the blurriness was gone, he was what his face would look like in 20 years.

"You weren't listening, not my problem." Sam said. "C'mon Kris, Makarus, let's leave the big macho military men to their delusions of usefulness."

Makarus broke free of the men and ran towards Sam.

"What do we do now?" he asked.

Kris followed Makarus, clinging to him.

"We can go talk to the part of the group that doesn't consist of stuck-up military men who think violence can solve everything and set off explosions in your backyard without so much as a 'sorry for disturbing you.'" Sam said.

(( Yes, she is STILL sore about that. XD ))

Makarus thought.

"How far are they?" he asked. He hoped for a chance to show off his abliites. Again.

"About 200 yards." Sam replied. Ryan was still trying to get his head clear.

"Um, could you say that in a measurement I can understand? Like meters or something?" Makarus asked. He didn't know what Yards were.

(Lol, Ryan is just about to get over that and then...)

Near Ryan, Calixra, Tinfi, and the twins were idling. Calixra and Ziritrin were sitting next to each other and were having a silent conversation, while Corwiar just looked bored. Some distance away, Leta and Mors were talking about something on their own.

"A hundred and eighty meters, give or take a couple." Sam said, running of towards the group.

Makarus ran after Sam.

(I think I'm going to go now... See you tommarro!)

And Kris went after them, moving awkwardly in her new clothes and holding on to Makarus.

(This is my last post too. Good night everyone.)

Ryan focused for a moment longer. "I am relaxed...." He muttered. "My mind is clear....." He opened his eyes, to catch sight of Sam running right at him. "Or..... not....."

(( G'night, you two. ))

"A hundred and eighty meters, give or take a couple." Sam said, running of towards the group.

(I thought everyone was together, right?)

Gorbech clenched his fists, and then proceeeded to give Sam the dirty finger as she was walking away, as she had once done to Allen. Allen saw this, and gave him a smack.

Gorbech had to control his voice. "Major, this is Bullcrap. She-"

"You shut the hell up, Captain. Things are hard enough as is it without you causing more of a ruckus. "

"But I-"

Allen cut him off. "No you don't. Use your head Gorbech, this is a thinking battlefield, and not everyone is wearing the uniform."

He straightened his BDU's. "I'm going to attempt the dipomatic approach, God help me, so just sit down and shut up.

Gorbech simply sat and sulked.

Meanwhile, #96 had caught sight of Calixra again. "Excuse me, but I don't think I caught the names of the beings present here."

(I just reealized, Sam reminds me alot of an Amazon Warrior. A radically femminist badass.)

Makarus stopped about four ten feet away from the other group (If it's two groups.). He just stood there, tak\ing everything in. This was defniatly not in his mission briefing...

(His original mission was to just study spatial anomlyies surrounding a planet.)

(( It's really more to do with the fact that she thinks she's superior to humans, and tries to assert that wherever possible, so she doesn't like it when a human tries to assert their own superiority. ))

Sam watched him carefully for a moment, before returning her attention to other matters. For one thing, she caught a little bit of Allen and Gorbech's conversation, and scoffed. "Diplomatic.... yeah right...."

Calixra looked up at #96. "Hold on," she told Ziritrin, and then she said to #96, "That's Gorbech, and Allen, and there's Sam, Ryan, and Makarus. And there are Mors, Leta, and Tinfi. I don't know anyone else's names yet." She pointed out each of them as she said their names. "Is there anything else?"

Kris watched Sam's and Ryan's conversation with some interest, but now she turned to Makarus and spoke to him. "...Um, Makarus... Do you trust them? I mean, if you don't... we probably should leave... We caused enough trouble already..."

"Hey, don't leave!" Sam exclaimed, having heard the comment. (Hey, just because she looks human doesn't mean she doesn;t still have excellent hearing and stuff.)

Kris cringed. "Oops, sorry... I-I don't mean to offend you."

"It's okay....." Sam said. "I just want you to leave yet! You can trust me, at least."

"I have no doubt about that. We'll stay. I want to see how these "Skorin" act when thy're alive." Makarus said, suddenly snapping out of his trance. "It'll help me improve my imitation."

Calixra looked up at #96. "Hold on," she told Ziritrin, and then she said to #96, "That's Gorbech, and Allen, and there's Sam, Ryan, and Makarus. And there are Mors, Leta, and Tinfi. I don't know anyone else's names yet." She pointed out each of them as she said their names. "Is there anything else?"

"It is interesting that such a variety of sopecies would be work together so closely...How did you happen to join them?"

Allen decided to simply be direct. He followed up to Sam. "Could I talk to you and Ryan alone for a minute?"

Sam shrugged. "Sure, why not? I'll humor you." She said. "C'mon, psychic-boy."

Ryan blinked, and nodded. "Okay....."

Kris nodded silently in reply to Makarus, and watched as Sam and Ryan went away with Allen.

Calixra answered #96. "I think it's interesting too... Where I come from, even my own kind don't get along. Actually, we were being attacked by another faction when I suddenly found myself here. I don't know exactly how I came here, but after I did I sort of stumbled across them."

The Major stooped when they had some distance, andturned to Sam. "I apologize on behalf of myself and my men on the way you have been treated from the first day of our meeting."

#96 gave a thoughtful "Hmmm."

"Very interesting. And yet, you trusted these strange beings, even though you had just met them?"

"If they wanted to harm me, they could have already," Calixra replied.

(I need to change her name again. It has too many unnecessary consonants because I wanted to make it unique from every other word...)

Sam paused. "Um...." She thought for a minute. "Well... Alright, I guess.... I'd still appreciate a little notification if you're gonna charge into my woods guns blazing...."

(Next time call her up on her nonexistent cell phone XD)

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