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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:35 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:44 am
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Though Aria could hardly feel the fabrics of the things in the captain's cabinets, her eyes were well trained enough she could tell some of it was quality. Perhaps not sellable, but certainly usable. Quality linens, some clothing made for an indeterminate sex, and then stopped to stare at what looked like a crack in the back of the wardrobe. Shoving things out of the way, Aria pressed, then pushed, and eventually shoved the crowbar Jaden had given her into the crack. When it slid to the side, the companion's eyebrows rose.
"Jaden, it's not the beacon but you should take a look at this." Aria said over the comm, stepping away to finish looking through the desk.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:52 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:57 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:08 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:21 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:37 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:53 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:59 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:14 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:24 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:18 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:31 am
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Jas had been clamping magnets to the next crate when the previous crate had sent Aria spinning away from the ship. The tall blonde didn't notice that Aria wasn't in position by the cargo bay until she looked up from the crate to make sure the Companion was ready for the next one. Only, when she looked up, Aria wasn't there. Frowning, she waited a moment.
Then. Motion caught her attention. Moving at a decent rate away from the ship in an uncontrolled spin was a figure. Given that Jaden was coming up right behind her, there was only one person that could be.
Without a second thought, Jas hit the reel of wire anchoring herself to the main line and launched herself off the salvage ship. The tall blonde hurtled through space, slowing only slightly because of the friction of the line reeling out from her spool. As an intentionally launched object, Jas was moving quite a bit faster than Aria. However, she did have further to go before she hit the point where she had guessed that the companion's path would intersect hers. If she missed...
Well, that would be bad. It would take time for Jas and Jaden to get back in the ship then to the shuttle and then to retrieve Aria. If they found her.
Jaden noticed something was wrong as ze came up behind Jas with another pair of crates. Before ze could say anything, Jas was already launching herself off the ship. That left Jaden there to manage three crates by hirself while trying to figure out what was going on.
"What the ********?" Ze blurted over the comms. "Aria, what the hell are you doing over there? Gorram it, you two!"
There was a pause as Jaden looked around before ze bit out another expletive then degenerated into Chinese. Cursing to hirself in Chinese, Jaden slapped a magnet on each of the crates before clipping them temporarily to the line. Once they were secured, ze went after Jas' clip, which was scooting its way down the line toward the ship while Jas moved to intercept Aria.
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:56 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:08 am
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"Jaden, shut up!" Jas finally snapped and a moment later Jaden's comm shut off abruptly.
She was a little over halfway to Aria and gaining on the woman, however, it looked like her estimation was going to be rather close. The spin the crate had put on Aria's trajectory made it a bit difficult to predict. Then there was the wait. After launching herself after Aria, there wasn't much more Jas could do but wait and make last second corrections with the handful of magnet-clips she had on her belt.
"Aria!" Jas tried on the comms. "I'm on my way, just hold tight."
The blonde waited a moment to see if there was a response. Instead of Aria's warm voice she got silence.
"Aria!" she tried again.
They were closer now. Within metaphorical spitting distance, but too far to reach out and grab each other. And then they were passing. Jas made a grab for Aria. Any bit of her. The first attempt missed the toe of her boot by inches. The second by centimeters. The third, her fingertips almost brushed Aria's suit. Then she was almost past. Jas tried hooking her foot to Aria and turned on the magnets in her boots.
And then Aria was just out of reach again.
No luck.
Until Aria's line, waving out behind her smacked Jas in the face. The blonde blinked. Went cross eyed. Realized what it was. Automatically, she wrapped her body around it until she found the loose end. Jas clipped the loose end to her own line before purposefully tangling Aria's closer to herself to draw Aria closer.
"Jaden. Pull us in. I'm a bit tied up here..." Jas ordered, now far too tangled to hit the appropriate button on her spool.
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