I jammed my hand down on the control panel a little harder than I would have liked when she said that. How the hell would she be able to recognize me? I was covered in fur, had a tail for fuck's sake. . .

"If I was in my right mind, I wouldn't have attacked you so blatantly. It would have been stealthy. Just a simple matter of severing your carotid artery while you were rummaging through the garbage."

The hair on the back of my neck was standing up just because of the calm way she was stating this. It was very matter of fact. A definite sign of insanity, in the least mental illness. Most serial killers state things similarly. I slowly turned around to look at her after I set the ship to land on Pyron for a fuel up. I wondered how long she had been living among the wreckage there before Fahu and I came to take everything of value and leave her for dead.

"Look, I'm really sorry about leaving you there, all right? I had other things to take care of."

"Like getting Fahu killed."

I flashed a glare at her as we landed. I stormed out of my ship after slamming things around unnecessarily. I hate mind readers! Not much else in the 'verse pisses me off to the extent that someone digging around in my head does. I started to fuel up my ship and worked on taking my mind off of anything she could use against me later. I don't know how brainwaves travel. Could she pick up on it if I was on the other side of a wall?

I turned my head to the left and saw a large form limping towards me. My heart stopped beating for a moment and my breath caught in my throat. The cloaked figure stopped at a fountain and pulled its hood back. My heart started beating again. It was an old gerullian, that's all. I leaned against my ship and closed my eyes. Not a good time to be thinking about the past. It seems to be coming back to me. Stupid girl.

"You're broadcasting now."

I punched the spaceship to get her to shut up.

The ship was fueled and I was at my wits end. Adrasta was sitting with her back to the wall staring up at the ceiling reciting the human dictionary and also giving me every synonym and antonym for every word. It was better than her talking about all the different ways she could kill me before I realized what had happened. At least she wasn't directly talking to me. I can handle that. Sponge Guy was pacing back and forth in front of me on the control panel making sure I was aware of his annoyance with the girl. I ran my hand along his back for a good five minutes trying to comfort him, but he wasn't having it.

I closed my eyes and drifted off. If she really wants to kill me, it wont matter if I'm awake or asleep, at least the way she talks about it. What is Ya'uta doing anyway? I imagine he's still alive. If I wasn't able to kill him by near evisceration, I'm pretty sure he's all right. I want to stop thinking about how downtrodden and sad he looked at our last meeting. I can't get the look in his eyes out of my head.

"Lena. Lena wake up."

"What?"

Adrasta pointed to a screen on my control panel. I saw a face on it. A very unfriendly face.

"You will be happy in the knowledge it took every resource I had to find you."

I blinked a few times. This was not possible. Ok, so it's possible apparently, but this is really horrible.

"I'm sorry?"

I covered the screen and looked back at Adrasta.

"How long has he been on that screen?"

"For about 5 minutes. He wasn't content with hearing about the proper technique for gutting sturgeon."

"I can't imagine why."

I turned back to the screen and looked into the angry eyes of an old, grumpy, crab-faced yautja.

"I thought we resolved this a long time ago Gi'gush."

"You shouldn't trust yourself to think."

Adrasta poked her head into his view.

"I agree fully."

I put my hand on her forehead and shoved her away.

"That doesn't help."

She walked over and started prodding at Sponge Guy. Can't leave her alone for a moment, god damn. I hit a few buttons to see what was going on. The yautja ship was right behind mine and it was armed with a whole bunch of really nasty things.

"We're locked onto you. There is nowhere to go. I would suggest you land and we fight."

"Hah. Why would I want to do that?"

"Otherwise I'll blow your skiff up."

I sighed. I suppose that is a good reason.

"All right. We'll do this face to face."

I ended the communication and steered the ship towards the nearest planet. This was not something I was expecting.

Adrasta seemed to be in higher spirits after hearing about my upcoming duel.

"I'll be your second if you want."

"I don't want you to, it doesn't work that way with them, and you're staying on the ship out of my way."

She scoffed and sat back down. I strolled off the ship and looked around. I was surrounded by at least 15 Yautja. I couldn't run into the trees for cover, I couldn't fly away, and I wasn't sure I could beat Gi'gush in a duel. I walked towards him until I was about 8 feet away.

"Took you a long time to find me. I'm a little disappointed in your abilities. I always thought you were omniscient, but I suppose you're just as blind as the rest of us."

He growled at me from behind his highly adorned mask. I guess he still doesn't like being insulted. I saw a huge patch of scar tissue on his left side that seemed to engulf the entirety of it. That must be where the blast from the canon hit him, or at least skimmed him. I knew I should have stuck around to make sure he was dead. His head slightly turned to the side and I followed his gaze. Adrasta was pacing with a stick held out in front of her like a sword. She stopped at a tree and started knocking on it, then pressed her ear to it.

"What is she doing?"

"I honestly don't know. She's insane."

I watched her repeat this for about five more minutes. She was good for a slight distraction. At least Gi'gush isn't trying to kill me right now. She knocked on one tree twice, looked in my direction, and when she found me she gave me a thumbs up and started whacking the tree really hard with the stick. I pressed my fingers to my temples and let out a groan. I would like to be a little less stressed when I die.

I turned to Gi'gush again. I'm pretty sure he was trying to decide whether he wanted to take Adrasta away somewhere and punish her for being weird. He's like that after all. He pulled out his spear and extended it to its full length.

"Choose a weapon."

"I'll take a spear too."

One of the other yautja tossed me a spear and I fiddled with it for a few moments before it extended. I dropped it when it did so it wouldn't go through my eye. As soon as I picked it up again Gi'gush let out his roar to let me know he was attacking.

He swung hard with the spear and I just barely deflected it. I was knocked off balance and staggered to the side. I rolled over to dodge the spear as he thrust it at me. I swung the spear and managed to sweep his feet out from under him. I flipped backwards and got to my feet again. We were getting closer to the place where Adrasta was still banging at the tree with her stick. Gi'gush shouted something to one of the other yautja. He took out his knife and threw it at Adrasta.

"No!"

The knife missed her and imbedded itself in the tree right in front of her face. She looked at it and then at the yautja that threw it at her. She gave him a thumbs up and pulled the knife out. She started digging at the tree. It wasn't as distracting as the loud clacking, so Gi'gush allowed it. I thrust my spear at him and managed to graze his ribcage. He roared in anger and brought his spear down. It went through my shoulder and pinned me to the ground. He followed this with a swipe by his wrist blades that nearly severed my head from my body. I grabbed my throat, but the world was already going black.