Even Androids play the blues, part 5
Trance smiled as she walked into the mess hall, "Hay everyone: Rommie's been offered the chance to play in a band tonight!" Rommie glared at her, "I wanted to keep it quiet!" Trance smiled, "Something's are too big to be kept quiet. Anyway, I'm sure everyone will want to be there." Rommie's face fell as the others nodded their agreement, with the exception of Tyr.
Dylan smiled, "Hay, I think we can arrange it so we can be there. As Mr. Anasazi here appears to be un-interested, he can keep watch while we're out." Tyr nodded, "Fine by me: I want nothing to do with this." Rommie shook her head, "I haven't even decided if I'm going to do it or not." Dylan looked at her, confused, "You're going to give up an opportunity to show people just how good you are?"
Rommie blushed, "I wish people would stop saying that! Tyr's right: I'm a WarShip, I shouldn't waist time on things like this." Andromeda's holographic form blinked into existence, "Nothing in the High Guard rules and regulations says a Avatar can't have a hobby, as long as it's not disruptive." Tyr looked up, "It is disruptive: we've had to change our shore leave plans to accommodate this inane idea." Rommie glared at him, "Well if that's they way you feel, I'm defiantly playing."
Dylan sat down at the table Harper had found near the stage, "Well, the should be starting soon." Beka nodded, grabbing a bottle before Trance could pore a drink, "This affect you the same way it affected the old you?" Trance shook her head, "No, I can hold my drink nowadays." Dylan looked at her, "That's what you said on Svorog's Anvil, and you ended up passed out on the floor. Until the gunfight stated that was." Trance winced, "Don't remind me: that's when I lost my tail."
The room went quiet as the lights on the stage came on. Dylan's jaw dropped when he saw Rommie: the black dress she ware was split to the thigh on one side, and only held up by the shoulder strap on the opposite side. Her long hair hang down loosely, framing her face perfectly. Beka noticed the way he was looking at the Avatar, and looked at Trance, who winked. Beka shook her head: this was going to be a long evening to be sure.
The band struck its first song, and Rommie followed the advice the other had given her, and focused on Dylan, trying to act like it was the same as it was back in hydroponics. Soon she was playing like she had never played before: the music seemed to well up from inside her. From the corner of her eye she saw Tarkell grin: maybe what he said was true.
The song ended, and Mackie stood, taking the microphone from above his piano, "Now, those of you who come here regally will no-doubt be aware that we have a new member of the band with us tonight. I'm sorry to say that she's only a visitor here at Mendocino Drift, but we hope she'll come back some day." He smiled broadly, "Now, when someone joins the band, they have to sing a song, and she has chosen a classic song from pre-Commonwealth Earth. So let's give a warm welcome to Rommie." The ordinance erupted in applause as Rommie shyly made her way to the front of the stage.
TBC
Trance smiled as she walked into the mess hall, "Hay everyone: Rommie's been offered the chance to play in a band tonight!" Rommie glared at her, "I wanted to keep it quiet!" Trance smiled, "Something's are too big to be kept quiet. Anyway, I'm sure everyone will want to be there." Rommie's face fell as the others nodded their agreement, with the exception of Tyr.
Dylan smiled, "Hay, I think we can arrange it so we can be there. As Mr. Anasazi here appears to be un-interested, he can keep watch while we're out." Tyr nodded, "Fine by me: I want nothing to do with this." Rommie shook her head, "I haven't even decided if I'm going to do it or not." Dylan looked at her, confused, "You're going to give up an opportunity to show people just how good you are?"
Rommie blushed, "I wish people would stop saying that! Tyr's right: I'm a WarShip, I shouldn't waist time on things like this." Andromeda's holographic form blinked into existence, "Nothing in the High Guard rules and regulations says a Avatar can't have a hobby, as long as it's not disruptive." Tyr looked up, "It is disruptive: we've had to change our shore leave plans to accommodate this inane idea." Rommie glared at him, "Well if that's they way you feel, I'm defiantly playing."
Dylan sat down at the table Harper had found near the stage, "Well, the should be starting soon." Beka nodded, grabbing a bottle before Trance could pore a drink, "This affect you the same way it affected the old you?" Trance shook her head, "No, I can hold my drink nowadays." Dylan looked at her, "That's what you said on Svorog's Anvil, and you ended up passed out on the floor. Until the gunfight stated that was." Trance winced, "Don't remind me: that's when I lost my tail."
The room went quiet as the lights on the stage came on. Dylan's jaw dropped when he saw Rommie: the black dress she ware was split to the thigh on one side, and only held up by the shoulder strap on the opposite side. Her long hair hang down loosely, framing her face perfectly. Beka noticed the way he was looking at the Avatar, and looked at Trance, who winked. Beka shook her head: this was going to be a long evening to be sure.
The band struck its first song, and Rommie followed the advice the other had given her, and focused on Dylan, trying to act like it was the same as it was back in hydroponics. Soon she was playing like she had never played before: the music seemed to well up from inside her. From the corner of her eye she saw Tarkell grin: maybe what he said was true.
The song ended, and Mackie stood, taking the microphone from above his piano, "Now, those of you who come here regally will no-doubt be aware that we have a new member of the band with us tonight. I'm sorry to say that she's only a visitor here at Mendocino Drift, but we hope she'll come back some day." He smiled broadly, "Now, when someone joins the band, they have to sing a song, and she has chosen a classic song from pre-Commonwealth Earth. So let's give a warm welcome to Rommie." The ordinance erupted in applause as Rommie shyly made her way to the front of the stage.
TBC