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"Well, with the right materials, we could make some new clothes for you to make up for it."
"What, you're tailors as well as space-dwelling biomodded freaks-"
"Hey! There is no need to call two perfectly healthy augmented spacers freaks!"
"Sorry if I'm just a little pissed off right now at the areeni who just tore my clothes off against my repeatedly stated will!"
"I just wanted to paint you too! Why don't you like paint?!"
"Ei! Quiet for a bit. You're right, Sinter, I screwed up, Ei screwed up, and we really don't have much of an excuse here. I mean, I was just really excited by the idea of seeing a near-baseline areeni, young, healthy, in her prime..."
"You're trying to hit on me, aren't you, you weird pervert."
"Agh. If that's how you want to interpret it, I guess. You are a pretty beautiful example of a near-baseline areeni, in my opinion."
"What a suave guy you are, tearing my clothes forcibly off against my will and then complimenting me on my 'almost perfect condition'. Ske help me, I might just swoon."
"Ske, I apologised already! I offered to make you new clothes for free. What else do you want from me, an arm?"
"Do you even have one of those?"
"I have six!"
"Yes, yes I do. Let's not bring the subject up again. I tried to give myself prehensile digits and ended up losing my entire arm. I replaced it with a tentacle and then I couldn't take the asymmetry. The moment I have access to a working set of equipment, I'm putting my old arms back, don't you worry."
"Aww, I like the tentacle arms!"
"Yes, and you somehow also manage to get by with one digit per limb. It's driving me insane, personally, but I digress."
"Wow. Uh. I didn't realise that was an actual mistake. Sorry to point it out, I guess."
"Eh. You don't know me well enough to know what I like about my mods and what I don't like. Apology accepted. Now, I did mention three times now that I'm perfectly willing to make you new clothes, and there's actually some fabric abandoned in a corner in this room, conveniently enough."
"Isn't that the bed?"
"It looks like it might have been a bed once. Yeah, I'll need to report that to Saru and see if you guys can get an actual bed."
"That'd be appreciated, thanks. Until then, if you're that embarrassed about being naked, which I really don't think you ought to be, I guess you can stay here while we work."
"How long is that going to take?"
"We're both, at this point, highly skilled surgeons, pilots, biotech designers and sometimes combatants. I don't think making a couple of pieces of clothing can be that much more difficult. I can figure out a design, and Ei can handle the cutting and dyeing."
"This will be fun!"
"Dyeing? What, with the paint she's making from her own body? That's really disgusting-"
"No, that'd just wash out. I'll think of something."
Huh. Well, despite the fact they just stripped me naked, they do genuinely sound apologetic. And hey, if nothing else, they've been pretty honest so far even when it hasn't worked out well for them to do so, so I doubt this is some kind of trick. I hope. Unlike Saru's... well, that entire day, really.
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