Broken hunger

"Do you have weapons? You say to Ariana

" Do I look like having weapons?" She says ironically pointing out her party sari. Y just have a silver ceremonial dagger, as it is part of our ceremonies of victory. And you?

"My claws"

"We are fucked up, really screwed." She sight, clearly enraged with the hole business "I was with this old squid and suddenly he spayed me with some acid shit. And I lost consciousness. When I wake up I heard the commotion from your room and just come here.

"I started as an infiltration pilot then I ended up in infiltration on stations and sabotage of infrastructures." She says straightforwardly and you believe her.

"I am a scientific tactician, specialists in robotic and old tech in general but I ended up being a mecha pilot." She doesn't seem surprised to see a Cougar scientific.

Then, she froze for an instant: "Wait a moment ... You are Silverman The unbreakable"

"Unbreakable?" You comment confused

She laughs "You are infamous between the Kraken empire. They have been trying to kill you a year and a half and you have passed each attempt. Cool. We both have to work together to reach that supposed Golden Gate to The Noble area. And well, Once we are nobles we are untouchable for war.

"So we don't have to fight with each other." you wonder of loud is an interesting proposal. But Could you really trust an Octopus lady?.

Both of you go outside the room and you observe the magnetic beauty of the deep space. And the truth hits your mind as when you entered the Eroship, It was still docked into your ship bay. Now you are far away from it even if the nearby start looking exactly like the latest astrological charts. You have to be in the same system.

"We are in Space" You just say still in shock.

"I noticed and you probably as mecha pilot has noticed that we still are exact same System.

"Yeah, I did" you added a big promptly, she seems to be very confident with her skills, maybe too much.

"But you probably don't know how to measure time-based in micro-movements on orbits." She glares at you trying to perceive your emotions and her skin changes to a pale grey colour "No it wasn't an insult, Silverman. Only fleet pilots or astronomy specialists has that knowledge. We have been nearly three days here..."

"Can you remember anything about ..."

" No, I can't," You say everything since the moment. You have entered in the room is an enormous black hole, no single memory of entire 3 days you say to yourself.

"Ditto." She sights " I have a fuzzy memory about a Cthulhu tentacle zombie or something like..." But with the hell of drugs could be everything really."

The corridor is well-decorated following a classic old empire style. Even with silk hand made carpets, fake plants, and sculptures. If you close your eyes you could even imagine yourself as a noble in a palace thousands of years ago.

The three exits from it are now blocked, Included the rooms both of you were sedated, and a fiery glowing red energy shield is blocking your way to the rest of the vessel.

"Holy Shit," it is the only that the octopus pilot says.

You nod. The colour of the shield determines their strength from grey to red and the saturation of the colour the grade of protection. Both of you are dealing with the maximum quality of protection known in the fucking Galaxy. "It would be a hell of complex to find a way to get through it or destroy it," you add the obvious.

Ariana continues then offering herself to search in the vents using her camouflage skill and the fact she can use her nano suckers in hands and feet to climb any vertical surface."

"I am a hacker so I can enter in the cybersecurity mainframe."

That is a good call, however, If I scout through the nearby bents I can give a clear intel about what is going on in the ship. And we could proceed with a more extreme plan.

She is right, but the key answer should be if you trust her enough to let her go through vents.
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