"Yeah, he's a commissar or something in the Imperial Guard? Poor guy's kinda overwhelmed, it'll be nice that he has someone from home."
Saturday swallows, still uncertain. "I guess - god. Best place would be. Me and my crew, okay, there was this nest of those things. We didn't, um. Really understand what they were. That they were bad and using people, killing them, yeah, but - that these things exist, it's a big secret on my world. So we didn't know what we were walking into. And things went bad. It was blow the hive, in the end, with us inside, or let them get out and spread, so we..."
She shrugs.
"We blew the hive. And we should have died, but someone intervened and we didn't. Instead we got - sucked into another world, a bunch of them, actually, like in a row. And then a couple days ago, I went to sleep where we were all staying and... woke up here."
She rubs her forehead. Faced with an audience who only wants to hear - who doesn't have an explanation they're demanding, or an ego to be soothed, or fears to assuage, or doubts to be convinced out of - she finds she barely knows how to tell it.
"There was a lot of in between there I just glossed over. Long story short, we got tied mystically to the queen of the hive we were fighting, and either we take her out or she takes us out and also maybe gets to destroy the world. We've been chasing her around the metaplanes trying to put an end to it. It's been - a real lousy time."
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Saturday swallows, still uncertain. "I guess - god. Best place would be. Me and my crew, okay, there was this nest of those things. We didn't, um. Really understand what they were. That they were bad and using people, killing them, yeah, but - that these things exist, it's a big secret on my world. So we didn't know what we were walking into. And things went bad. It was blow the hive, in the end, with us inside, or let them get out and spread, so we..."
She shrugs.
"We blew the hive. And we should have died, but someone intervened and we didn't. Instead we got - sucked into another world, a bunch of them, actually, like in a row. And then a couple days ago, I went to sleep where we were all staying and... woke up here."
She rubs her forehead. Faced with an audience who only wants to hear - who doesn't have an explanation they're demanding, or an ego to be soothed, or fears to assuage, or doubts to be convinced out of - she finds she barely knows how to tell it.
"There was a lot of in between there I just glossed over. Long story short, we got tied mystically to the queen of the hive we were fighting, and either we take her out or she takes us out and also maybe gets to destroy the world. We've been chasing her around the metaplanes trying to put an end to it. It's been - a real lousy time."