She cut through the crisp night air like a pale blade, her strong wings carrying her like delta wings, how she loved to sore way up high were there were no roads to restrict her, and gravity was her bitch. With her eyes closed she let her other senses guide her, always faster and higher and for a little while she felt somewhat at peace, like her imprisonment was just a nightmare she could shake off her system...then there was a ´´beep´´ and her comm activated bringing her back to reality and ending her peace.

-´´Lady Morrigan´´ said the ship´s computer ´´your presence is required immediately at the ship´s bridge´´ it said in a solemn tone.

-´´What if I just ignore it? What if I just decide to keep on flying until my wings can´t take it and then look for a bar filled with cold drinks and hot men?

-´´Lady Morrigan, can you hear me?´´ the ship insisted.

-´´...Yes, I heard you (sigh)...I´m on my way back now, tell Pyron I shouldn't´t take more then forty minutes...´´

-´´That wont be necessary Lady, we have you´re location pinpointed and you are within range, prepare to be transported´´.

-´´Crap...´´.

-´´Lady Mor...?´´.

-´´I´m ready, go ahead´´ she grimaced, she didn't´t like being transported, that one moment when her molecules were not yet recombined at the new location made her a nauseated, so she took a deep breath, and in the second it took her the open her eyes she felt the ship´s sharp artificial lights shinning down on her face, and she had to remind herself to walk and not to fly.

As she walked down a corridor she thought about what was ahead of her, she knew that she should be worried, but it just wasn't´t in her nature to be a worrier, she was more of a ´´take action and let the chips fall were they may´´ kinda gal ´´carpe diem´´ and all that jazz, but still, she should think about what to say in her defense.

-´´for some reason I don´t think going with ´´if Demitri would have listened to me in the first place none of this would have happened´´ is going to work for me, I guess I´ll have to suck it up and act al contrived like a good little girl...´´ As she pondered her options she felt a faint movement in the corner of her eye, a silver flash turned into a polished beryllium sphere the size of a Football, hovering at eye level.

-´´I trust you had a pleasant constitutional Lady Morrigan´´ said the ship´s computer.

If someone had told her that after being imprisoned inside of a boulder for one hundred years, only to be freed by a trinket collecting alien on a sentient ship, she would have never believed it, but here she was and any place was better then being trapped in a living nightmare -´´It was...pleasant, I mean´´

Life is full of little surprises and irony, sure she was out of the rock, but she was far from being free, Pyron saw her as one of his trinkets and would not let her go until his collection was complete, but at least he was tolerable, the Pharaoh Anakkaris had lost his mind a long time ago and deep down she feared that if she had stayed in that rock she would be right there with him, Lord Raptor was as crude as he was vicious and you couldn't´t trust him as far as you could throw him...not that you would want to touch him, much less pick him up...Bishamon, the cursed samurai, she still didn't´t quite know what to make of him, but she knew that if he was loyal to Demitri she would have to take him down eventually... and then there was Demitri, their general, Demitri Maximoff Lord of the vampires, and she was his second in command, she always knew the gods had a sense of humor, but she did not know to what extent until she found herself having to play nice with a man with whom she had a blood feud and who took every chance he got to taunt her...-´´what a sad, sorry bunch of misfits we are´´.

-´´Lady Morrigan, would you like to...freshen up before you go to see Pyron?´´

she caught a glance of her reflection in one of the ship´s windows and immediately turned around and pulled the orb closer to her face...

-´´Lady Morrigan?´´ asked the puzzled computer ´´...are you... using me as a mirror? ¬¬´´

-´´Well, I don´t think I should keep Pyron waiting, do you? besides I always get covered with frost when I fly, so most of the times I don´t even bother with it, but I think that now is one of those times when I should try to make myself more presentable´´ she spoke while she tossed her wet hair and looked at her ´´fun house´´ like reflection ´´how is the mood in the bridge tonight?´´ she asked trying to sound as nonchalant as possible.

-´´Well, Lord Demitri has recovered completely and has been quite ´´vocal´´ about the whole ´´situation´´

-´´Oh, goody, and Pyron?´´ she asked.

-´´Lord Pyron is very concerned about his general almost being killed and his second in command´s alleged involvement, but after hearing Lord Demitri´s version of the events in question he wants to hear from you before taking any disciplinary measures´´

She stood there, in the middle of the hallway, in a ship orbiting the earth, holding a floating, talking, super intelligent sphere and she felt just like a child about to be reprimanded by her father, she could feel her cheeks burning and-

-´´Lady Morrigan, perhaps you should take a few minutes to compose yourself, I can let Pyron know you need a few minutes...´´

she looked at the orb and saw her distorted reflection looking back at her with a puzzled look in her eyes, and realized she was still holding it gently in her hands.

-´´Lady, your hands are very cold and you are covered in frost...´´

At least there was someone on this ship who was worth talking to, this little orb was in fact one of the few ´´beings´´ that actually got things done around here and did not annoy her to death, and had quite a sassy attitude to boot.

-´´Why, Ship, is that concern I detect in your voice? If you are not careful I might think you care about what befalls me...´´ she said batting her eye lashes coquettishly and cheerfully grinning ´´but you have nothing to worry about, we succubi have a body temperature of 105 degrees all the time, I actually prefer the cool weather, now, let´s not keep the boys waiting any longer´´ she said as she stepped away toward´s the ship´s bridge

´´Good luck´´ said the orb as it watched her walk away.