Road Trip. Commander Vandham plans an outing with a friend.
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"When all this is over, I'm gonna take you on a road trip," Vandham said, eyes glued to the video flickering on the wall.
The woman next to him wriggled a little closer to his arm, the one with the heart and the wrench and the promise that she'd loved since Earth. She laid her head against it, also watching the video. "Funny Miran Animal Babies! 90 minutes, no jump scares!" didn't require any concentration, perfect for after a long work day, which was every day for the Commander. "Will you now?" she asked.
"Yeah. I figure, we grab a tent, some bedrolls,..."
"Some Gatling guns," she joked.
"Nope. We'll stick to roads that have been cleared. There's some nice fishing near Biahno," he mused, prompted by the current antics of the video, where a large-eared terebra clumsily rolled into the shallow water of a lake.
"Sounds more like camping than a road trip," Lila replied.
They were silent while the terebra kit sneezed adorably and chased its tail to catch the droplets that flew off it. "We won't have to rush. I want to water plant is fine, pay a vist to Tatsu's mom, talk to the team at the central Skybound Coil Tree."
"The archeologists?"
"Them. I want to see how the human-alien alliance is getting along with figuring out Mira."
"I thought the tree was pretty obvious, at least according to the Nopon." The video had switched to lambing time in an ovis flock, and they were quiet again, considering the world through newborn eyes.
Vandham shrugged in a way that moved Lila closer. "So it'll be a quick stop. We could catch a look at the waterfalls before we come back."
"Sounds perfect."
a/n: Lila Brown the OC NPC has had a on and off thing with Vandham in a variety of stories. I needed short and comfort today, so that's what we get. Vandham went fishing near Biahno in Inktober 2019/3
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