Chapter Four-Midnight Madness
Samus woke up, images still pouring through her mind. Swords, Space Pirates, fire-y eyes, red hair, Torina, looking scared, General Hoggard transforming into a wolf, Rundas up against the wall, Larsen sneering down on his grave…
Samus shuddered.
"Got chills?" Gandrayda muttered from the bunk underneath.
"Why? Do you?" Samus flipped back the covers and jumped lightly down from the top bunk to the floor.
"Yeah. I can't help thinking that we did something wrong, waiting for the General to make a slip."
"I fell like something bad is going to happen." Samus admitted as she walked over to the cooler in the corner.
On the nightstand, next to the other bunk bed, a small, green screen lit up and began to ring softly. Raising her eyebrows, and deciding that the cooler could wait, Samus picked up Torina's computer and touched the screen. A recording popped up and Torina's voice began to speak softly.
"Hey, guys. Right now, if I'm not on my way to Norion, I'm at Norion, and if I'm not there either, I'm dead. Yeah, I did exactly what you told me not to. But if you aren't looking for me in a panic, you… Let's just say I'm really surprised. But, look, I'm a trainee, I'm a nuisance, I can do what you can't. Well, that's not really true, but the point is that I may not get in trouble for it. That's what I'm betting on. It would be a help, though, if you two and Ghor, if he's not drunk, and Rundas can get some people together and come and rescue me. And by some, I mean a lot. Of people. See ya. Hopefully. Angulan."
"What was that she said?" Gandrayda asked as she rolled out of bed.
"It was goodbye in her native language."
"How do you know that?" Gandrayda groaned.
"Observation and deduction wouldn't hurt your Hunters skills." Samus said tapping Torina's screen.
"Observation and deduction hurt your relationships." Gandrayda muttered as she rubbed her face.
"Observation got you up at three o'clock in the morning."
"Oh, it's only that late?" Gandrayda pulled herself back onto her bunk, yanking her sheets up to her head. "Wake me up at six a.m. I've got an early war in the morning."
"I'll take you up on that." Samus promised, deciding that the cooler could be given its due.
"Go ahead." Gandrayda muttered into her pillow.