Scene #4472: Drifting Through The Void

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Raine Arland	It's been a while since Raine had nothing to do but a plain old delivery. And honestly, it wa a welcome change of pace from all the body guarding, sword fighting, and storming of strongholds. So here he was, on the bridge of his ship, seated in the captain's chair. A holographic control spread was in front of him and he piloted the craft through the void of space, en route to another planet for a delivery of.... lets call it contraband. Yes. A few other windows float in from both sides, revealing other areas of the ship, such as the kitchen, the hangar, the hallways, and one window showed a view of Fragarach's room. Or rather, a camera drone had floated in and was now in the middle of watching the two other occupants of this ship...playing videogames. Fragarach and Lumeria were seated in her room. Or rather, the white clad creature floated lazily through the air, controller in her hands as she furiously pressed buttons in front of a flat screen TV. "You only got lucky last time! I will be the one winning now!" She proclaims moving her character across the screen to attack Lumeria's. ...Some sort of fighting game? Raine rolled his eyes from the bridge, and his voice filtered through the camera drone. "Really? You two know it's just a damn game, right?"
Lumeria	"Lucky, please... We could keep playing this until after Raine is dead and I would still win." Lumeria's using a bit more precision than Fragarach in her button pressing. She's also pretty sure she doesn't have a human lifespan either so her boast would hold up. "You should let me pilot then we wouldn't have to be here all day." Sure it couldm't be that different from controlling a video game.
Raine Arland	"Hey hey hey! Don't go casually killing me off like that. I'm right here, you know?" Raine grumbles, his voice coming frm the camera drone floating inside the room. But then there's a pause. "...Actually, not right here, but I can see and hear everything." He amended then. Fragarach turns her blue and white gaze aside at Lumeria and frowns. "Oho? Well I will have you know that I have beaten that fool boy at this game nine times out ten! There is no way that you can simply waltz in and-" KO! Her jaw drops and she stares at the screen. "...No! That's impossible! That was a fluke! I demand a rematch! I was so close to winning! You must be cheating!" Raine's voice can be heard sighing. "Seriously, give it up, Fragarach. You're not that good. ...And hey! I'm not that bad! ...And no, Lu. You're not piloting. Remember the last time we tried that?" He grumbles again, recalling a certain memory.
Lumeria	"I'm not killing you off. You're human, we're not. Meaning odds are we'll both outlive you by quite a bit." Lumeria's certainly familiar with the subject. "I'm not cheating, you're lucky you're not playing my sister. That's who taught me. She turned me into a naked mole rat everytime she got a perfect." Lumeria shudders a bit at the memory "It's not my fault a comet that only shows up once every thousand years came a little early. Besides we still came out ahead from the minerals that were inside." Of course she fails to mention it was only by 2 credits.
Raine Arland	"I call age discrimination! The grandmas are oppressing me!" Raine's voice shouts in faux offense as he continues to pilot the ship. From the bridge he rolls his eyes at the excuses made for their last piloting snafu. "Sure. Not your fault. But it happened." Pause. "...And it was only two credits! Two! You know how much it cost to repair the ship? That was a net loss!" Details, details. Fragarach meanwhile ignores all of this chatter about piloting and age. She doesn't even address Raine's calling her a grandma. Because something more important has happened. She lost! Again! Glaring at Lumeria, she points a sleeve at the girl. "Foolishness! I demand a rematch! For certain this time, my true skill will shine through!" And the rematch option is selected, a new fight beginning... Raine can be heard sighing heavily as he navigated the stars.
Lumeria	"Details, I'm the greatest light mage not an accountant. Besides I could give you a whole fleet of ships if weren't this whole kidnapping mess." Lumeria's likely telling the truth there. "Well, might as well since we have all day to kill. It's not like I have anything more important to do like researching the secret of immortality." She could be in a library right now but Raine had insisted she came along to keep Fragarach busy. "Unless someone here already knows it and is too busy playing video games to tell the rest of us." She still hadn't figure out what the girl was, she figured it was some kind of spirit, "Is that it? You can't move onto the next life until you win enough times?"
Raine Arland	"Yeah, yeah, greatest light mage, my ass." Raine retorted, rolling his eyes again as he focused on the view of space ahead of him, adjusting their course and charting a path for their destination planet. Ahhh, fun times. "Maybe I should have just dropped you off in Urbania so you could catch up with your sister." Well, technically, that girl working at te bookstore wasn't Lumeria's sister. Same person, same name, but a different existence from a different world. But details don't matter when you're making stupid threats, right? Right. Fragarach smirks, her eyes on the TV screen. "My, my. And who could this someone who know the secrets of immortality be? I wonder?" She mused aloud while mashing buttons in a way that only barely seemed to have rhyme or reason behind it. "And for your information, you silly child, I am not dead!" Well, that was the most information she's ever volunteered about herself ever.
Lumeria	"So if you're not a spirit what are you? Some kind of magical construct?" There was a great deal of it coming from Fragarach. "Maybe an attempt to artifically recreate the goddess?" Lumeria figures that could be a possibility. It seem like her questions have thrown her opponent off her game even further. "Or maybe you just botched a spell and ended up looking like that?" She knows that failed casts can have all kind of unusual effects after all.
Raine Arland	Raine is silent now, focusing on doing actual work here. That leaves the two women to bicker. Which apparently distracts Fragarach enough that she messes up inputs, move timings, and all sorts of things. "Are you silly? Why in the world would I be a constr- hey!" She jerks the controller this way and that, as if it would actually make her play better. "Who in their right mind would try to artificially create a goddess? Do you know how much- Argh!" KO! Another loss. The floating, tailed girl glares at the screen, teeth grit angrily, and a fist raised and shaking. Oops.
Lumeria	"Calm down, do you think punching me is going to help me any?" Lumeria's not much of a physical fighter and she already knows that Fragarach's magic somehow outclasses her own. "Look, I'll show you how to play. Maybe you can teach me a dark magic spell or two in exchange?" She can be nice...sometimes.
Raine Arland	".....Bah! Very well!" Fragarach fumes, and resists tossing the controller to the floor in a huff. Somehow. Just somehow, it feels like Lumeria just dodged a bullet there. The floating girl drifts downward next to Lumeria, cheek puffed up angrily as she awaits instruction. And while this was going on, Raine's voice speaks up from the camera drone. "We're approaching the destination. Get ready girls, we're entering the atmosphere soon."
Lumeria	"First, stop button mashing you might be able to beat Raine with that, but anyone with more than a basic knowledge of the game is going to be able counter it. And...we're finally here? That seemed like forever." Lumeria's actually grateful to here Raine's voice for once. "Are you sure no one's following us?" Seeing how is what they were delivering wasn't legal, it might have attracted some unwanted attention.
Raine Arland	"No one's following us. I made sure of that." Raine chuckles and then he adds, "Of course, that's not the end of the road. We still gotta deal with issues on the surface. So keep an eye out. No slacking today, you hear?" And with that, the ship shifted, and a robotic voice spoke on the intercom. "Now commencing atmospheric entry. Do not open any hatches. I repeat, do not open any hatches." And then everything began to shake, but that was routine for all of them now. It took a while, but eventually, there was a ding, and then Raine spoke up again. "Okay, we've made landfall. Try not to make a scene, okay?" He grumbles, directing that towards both Lumeria and Fragarach. The latter of whom, huffs and shuts off the game system and TV before floating off to her bed. Looks like she wasn't coming. As usual.
Lumeria	"How come she gets to slack off?" Lumeria points at Fragarach as she heads for her bed. Granted Lumeria's duties were generally limited to support and cleaning. Did he think a fight was going to break out between the two of them while he was gone. It looks like she would have to do some actual work for once instead of being a pretty freeloader and follows him onto the surface of the planet.
Raine Arland	"If I have to leave one of you to guard the ship, then the choice is pretty obvious, Raine's voice replies as the drone leaves Fragarach's room, floating out into the hallway, and then down into the hangar where it stops and stands by. All of the cargo and equipment were here. They took a...backdoor route onto the planet. Coordinates provided by the client. Not entirely secure, but it bypassed customs, which was all it needed to do really. They had landed out in the desert, with nothing to be seen for miles. Raine arrived at the hangar a minute after that, undoing the buttons on his usual outfit. "Right so, we're going through the desert here. We'll be taking the speeder so get on the back." As he says so, he grabs several parcels, loading them into a side compartment on the travel vehicle. "We're meeting the pickup a mile west, then we'll exchange the goods." He rolled his eyes and he saddled up onto the speeder. "Expect this to go south, but hope it doesn't, huh?" Raine says, smirking a bit wryly at Lumeria.
Lumeria	"What, you think I'm going to make off with the ship while you're gone?" Lumeria was going along with the whole kidnapping thing after all. Then again it would be troublesome to escape if she had wanted to. She might be able to get past Raine but Fragarach was a different matter. The girl would quickly know if she was gone. Well, at least she doesn't have to walk through the desert. Raine would likely have to end up carrying her if that was the case. She climbs on the back of the speeder. "And you're sure my beauty won't attract unwanted attention?" After all the two of them are more likely to get noticed than if he went alone.
Raine Arland	"Not really. I mean, if you did do that, Fragarach would just stop you, heh." Raine chuckles to himself as remotely opens the hanger bay doors, which yawned outward, opening up into a vast yellow and orange tinted desert. It was barren as far as the eye could see, with the occasional cactus here and there. "...Fun." He glanced down at the GUI, and figured out which way was west, before powering up the speeder and veering off in that direction. While they rode, wind blowing by them, the young man scoffed a bit. "Are you serious? This is a business deal. People aren't going to be falling all over themselves trying to get your attention." He rolled his eyes. "Or maybe you want that to happen, huh."
Lumeria	"I guess being the president's daughter is pretty meaningless here." Lumeria's still adjusting to world where she has no authority. "Well, it's better than getting shot at right?" She figures it would be best if they could avoid that. "And a Elfir maiden such as myself doesn't come along every day." It was pretty hard to mess that she was pretty vain after all.
Raine Arland	Were Raine not in the middle of driving a delicate piece of machinery, he would likely have facepalmed, fell down, or something. But no. He just rolls his eyes and keeps his gaze ahead. "My gods, how can you maintain that damn ego for so long?" He asks, not looking behind himself. "Sure, you're kind of hot, and you know some mildly useful magic, but that's it." There's a pause as the sound of the speeder racing through the sands fills the air. Then he goes on. "But what else do you have going for you? What other skills do you have? What have you accomplished with your life? What've you done?" He cracks a wry smirk then. "The moment you open your mouth, you'll destroy any positive impression anyone may have had about you before that. You know that, right?"
Lumeria	"And how many times would you be dead if it weren't said mildly useful magic?" Lumeria knows the number is higher than one. "It must be high enough to be worth keeping me around." She also points out he could have ditched her at any time he wanted. "I'm learning new spells all the time. Most people don't even master one form of magic in their lifetime. Getting the stains out of your clothes is a feat in itself."