30x300 by -yannik-
DAY FOURTEEN
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"But what if it crushes us?"
"It won't!"
"But what if…"
The three men hovering above the boy laughed, and the Commander's face was just turning more and more purple.
"Just get in, Tom!"
"But I saw that holonovel…"
"Oh, alright Owen, you can let your kid climb up the Jeffrie's Tubes" the men laughed again. "If he's scared of the turbolift. Bwahahaha!" the laughter stifled all sounds, even the voice of the Commander, bending to the boy.
The Commander, I must remember, the boy thought. That was the condition under which his dad… Under which the Commander let him have a tour of the Valiant. The ship he just started serving on. As the First Officer. Tom was so proud of the Commander. One of the large men was his Captain, but Tom couldn't tell which one.
"… just holonovel. Do you understand?"
Tom stared into his dad's bright blue eyes, and didn't understand.
"Yes, Commander" he stammered.
"Whoa! What a well trained little soldier!" one of the three large men approved.
"Now get in."
"But I…"
A hand pushed him, and he stumbled towards the entrance to the turbolift. He imagined it's door closing up upon him, and he shrieked like a mouse. He curled into a ball, that would make pushing him any further impossible. He didn't want to get in!
"Sorry Owen" the large man said, "but we need to get going. Stay here with your kid, and…"
"He'll get in. With us. Or else I'll pack him up into the shuttle, and send him out into space, and never get him back. And he knows I mean it, don't you, Tom?" the Commander said those words very slowly, accentuating each one of them.
Yes.
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t.b.c.