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Kenichi's Star
Kokoro
Hoshi had died. The Nekovalkryja OS startup sequence, lungs made and filled by hemosynth, consciousness beginning again while looking into a medical bay from a transparent tube—none of it would have been new to her. She had been expecting the relief those familiarities would bring. The solace of such was not to be met by the Neko, though.
Her body had broken in more places than she could reliably count and felt like the inextricable tangle of crushed stain glass. She stared up at the world tree's branches, the boughs of which had slowed her perilous fall and broken her like circus netting that had held momentarily only to comically break, at a cloudless sky. Morning had come quickly and the planet's harsh sun was biting through the omnipresent tree, claiming its stake on the water below in golden dappled puddles within the sea.
Floating on the surface like some detritus, Hoshi felt and saw two things at once. At first, above her, a bizarre shimmering light above her like a blazing new star twinkling in the morning light. Curiously, she stared at it, enamored. Underneath her, though, she felt ridges and rock-like crags. Next to her body, a silhouette blotted out the sun and strode through the air with as much ease as it did the water. Seeing it, she understood what was below her. Or, at least, what she believed her hallucinations thought was below her. Hoshi closed her dark blue eyes as she felt lifted out of the water. Surrendering, or perhaps relenting, she listened to the planet's heartbeat coupled with the sonorous lullaby of water falling off the whale's back that she was now on. For a moment, it became a song she knew—the Kaiyō's ship song sung in a wavering baritone.
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XSS Mordrakka
That twinkle in the sky Hoshi had seen, the NMX ship the XSS Mordrakka that Hoshi's old crew had taken control of, had been alone in its search for the better half of an hour. But its sensors indicating life as it dipped below the atmosphere of the outer planet of Kenichi's Star, Kokoro, had not gone unnoticed by the NMX ships also searching for the lost Yamataian captain.
"Report on findings on planet designated Kokoro," came a gravelly Mishhuvurthyar's voice through comms to Ketsurui Aiko's place in command and the SAINT operative's at helm. "At once!"
"Gunships XSS Yggfristall and XSS Braxxrrsil are en route to intercede," came another voice in response. Whatever reputation the little patrol ship Aiko and her crew had taken, it did not seem good as the rest of the NMX fleet seemed to give little thought to the the Mordrakka's autonomy. Close by, the two gunships sent to assist were entering the planet within the minute.
The life signs that scans had picked up on the Mordrakka, though, were that of a dozen biological life forms—not just that of their captain. And they were moving out of the planet quickly as a group.
Elsewhere on the ship, Asuka and Charbon and any of those that would help were refitting the torpedoes once again. They had not needed to be used in commandeering the ship but now that the NMX vessel was in their hands, it was easy guesswork to figure they may be useful in a fight for Hoshi, if it were to come to that. The cargo bay doors had been opened, too, in preparation for Aiko's orders to easily and succinctly collect their lost captain. Those like Molli and Sif stood at the ready for just such a task as they watched the patrol ship dip lower towards the world tree and the watery ocean that sparkled below it.
Kokoro
Hoshi had died. The Nekovalkryja OS startup sequence, lungs made and filled by hemosynth, consciousness beginning again while looking into a medical bay from a transparent tube—none of it would have been new to her. She had been expecting the relief those familiarities would bring. The solace of such was not to be met by the Neko, though.
Her body had broken in more places than she could reliably count and felt like the inextricable tangle of crushed stain glass. She stared up at the world tree's branches, the boughs of which had slowed her perilous fall and broken her like circus netting that had held momentarily only to comically break, at a cloudless sky. Morning had come quickly and the planet's harsh sun was biting through the omnipresent tree, claiming its stake on the water below in golden dappled puddles within the sea.
Floating on the surface like some detritus, Hoshi felt and saw two things at once. At first, above her, a bizarre shimmering light above her like a blazing new star twinkling in the morning light. Curiously, she stared at it, enamored. Underneath her, though, she felt ridges and rock-like crags. Next to her body, a silhouette blotted out the sun and strode through the air with as much ease as it did the water. Seeing it, she understood what was below her. Or, at least, what she believed her hallucinations thought was below her. Hoshi closed her dark blue eyes as she felt lifted out of the water. Surrendering, or perhaps relenting, she listened to the planet's heartbeat coupled with the sonorous lullaby of water falling off the whale's back that she was now on. For a moment, it became a song she knew—the Kaiyō's ship song sung in a wavering baritone.
—
XSS Mordrakka
That twinkle in the sky Hoshi had seen, the NMX ship the XSS Mordrakka that Hoshi's old crew had taken control of, had been alone in its search for the better half of an hour. But its sensors indicating life as it dipped below the atmosphere of the outer planet of Kenichi's Star, Kokoro, had not gone unnoticed by the NMX ships also searching for the lost Yamataian captain.
"Report on findings on planet designated Kokoro," came a gravelly Mishhuvurthyar's voice through comms to Ketsurui Aiko's place in command and the SAINT operative's at helm. "At once!"
"Gunships XSS Yggfristall and XSS Braxxrrsil are en route to intercede," came another voice in response. Whatever reputation the little patrol ship Aiko and her crew had taken, it did not seem good as the rest of the NMX fleet seemed to give little thought to the the Mordrakka's autonomy. Close by, the two gunships sent to assist were entering the planet within the minute.
The life signs that scans had picked up on the Mordrakka, though, were that of a dozen biological life forms—not just that of their captain. And they were moving out of the planet quickly as a group.
Elsewhere on the ship, Asuka and Charbon and any of those that would help were refitting the torpedoes once again. They had not needed to be used in commandeering the ship but now that the NMX vessel was in their hands, it was easy guesswork to figure they may be useful in a fight for Hoshi, if it were to come to that. The cargo bay doors had been opened, too, in preparation for Aiko's orders to easily and succinctly collect their lost captain. Those like Molli and Sif stood at the ready for just such a task as they watched the patrol ship dip lower towards the world tree and the watery ocean that sparkled below it.
