Upon Silver Devil: Chapter Three

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[I can't say i've ever seen him drunk actually. I haven't seen him in nearly ten years.] Hmm that'd be interesting. [He got tall.] He smiled oddly, trying to make light of what was clearly pretty awkward and difficult.

Esk pulled the ice pack away from his face, he looked irritated. "As soon as I found out I told her I couldn't give her what she wanted. Why is she so mad? It's not like I lied to her, or tricked her. I just.. can't do that sappy shit." He frowned.

"Attachments, man," James said sagely. "She had a vision of the future I guess, and she wanted you in it. I've heard it's pretty darn rough to go through a breakup, and it probably felt like a breakup to her when you told her you didn't love her. Plus we've already established that she's nuts."

"She didn't want me, she wanted some imaginary person who didn't exist." Esk huffed. "She couldn't ever accept I wasn't going to become someone else, no matter how hard she pushed." yeah, Vicky's determination to get through his emotional walls was one of the many reasons they could never work. She drove him nuts and the more she pushed, the more he shoved back.

"I guess so. She's odd, I don't think we'll ever understand her," James said. "Some people like to live in their fantasy worlds, man. It makes no sense." Although he had his own weird neuroses and coping techniques, so who was he to talk?

Esk went back to holding ice against his lip. Vicky was just... eugh, frustrating and unreasonable.

"You can get another ice pack for yourself if you need one later. I gotta go help Rigel make sure Tala's room is ready for the passengers."
James was being nice to Esk for the first time in a while. Apparently the stress had knocked the bitchiness out of him, temporarily at least.

Esk grunted a faint response and shooed James away with his free hand.

James headed off to find Rigel.

Rigel was cleaning the room, making sure the beds had bedding on them and it was ready for visitors.

Tala's room was pretty clean, thankfully. It did smell distinctly of cow, so they might have to air it out.

Not that James could tell, of course. He had no sense of smell. "Looks pretty good," he said.

Rigel chuckled and nodded, looking to James "Yeah, it just smells like her." He said.

James laughed. "Oh, it does? Guess we'd better scrub the room down, then. Darn."

Rigel chuckled and nodded "Or just a good airing out." He said with a shrug

"Easier said than done on this spaceship. We're not exactly talking about the greatest ventilation system ever invented here," James snickered.

"I know, something else to tinker with when we get home." Rigel said with a chuckle.

James opened all the ventilation grates as much as he could. "I'm glad I can't smell. Yeah, you and the other spaceship nerds can have a great time refitting this thing when we get back to Vestia."

Rigel laughed and looked around then went to start cleaning the floors.

James got a mop and got to work, helping Rigel. "These new passengers better appreciate the efforts we're going to for them," he joked.

"Maybe they would, if they knew" Rigel said, glad for the help.

"We won't have to tell them, they'll read it in our minds," James said. "Mind readers are convenient that way."

"Not your mind" Rigel said and shrugged a little. "They may see it but they may not comment unless we actually say something."

James grinned. "They'll probably hear you though, if you think about how nicely we cleaned this room." He didn't mind having telepaths on the ship, like Rigel had said, they couldn't overhear his thoughts.

Rigel chuckled and shrugged. He didn't mind either way.

James would help Rigel to get the room all cleaned up and aired out. "Esk and Luka are gonna have a hard time with the new passengers. I don't think they're gonna like Ivor hearing their thoughts."

Rigel frowned and nodded "Yeah, I know." He said quietly. Was that why Luka had wanted to leave?

"It'll be interesting to see how they handle this. I'll try to help keep the peace, since they won't get in my brain," James said. "So are we leaving this space station as soon as we have them on board?"

Rigel nodded and looked to James "Yeah, after Hytar leaves we will head for Vestia."