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Guest Laarell

"On Green Things, Shiny Things, and Pretty Ships"

Oh, dear goddess. Why did the Boganary have to be green? That was just... atrocious luck. Why couldn't they have been blue? Or purple? Or some nice, non-chromatic earth tone, like the humans? Now Laarell felt like everyone on the Bridge was looking at her. Normally she'd just have attributed the feeling to her own overinflated ego (or desire to compensate for the lack thereof), but... well... she wasn't imagining it this time.

 

Shiny things. Things that went boom. By the gods. The Boganary witch was insane. Also, incredibly self-serving. And evil. One couldn't forget evil.

 

So, they'd have to cough up shiny things, and things which went boom. What went boom? Lots of things went boom. Excalibur, for instance... but that was already covered under "I want your ship". Auntie Wort was getting a shuttle. Dear gods. Starfleet would have been having seizures if they knew Corizon was agreeing. In the back of her mind, Laarell prepared a draft for a summary of the "unfortunate shuttlebay event" in which one of the shuttles was tragically destroyed.

 

Maybe they could rig some of the torps they were sending down -- or the shuttle. They'd go boom, all right -- maybe when Auntie was settling in for her first joyride. Or when they came into contact with Boganary DNA. There was an idea -- turn her greed against her after they got the kid out.

 

After all, Laarell did want to get the child back on the ship, if only to restore the medical department to a better sense of working order and to free her current Trill interest from his distractions.

 

In a strange way, however, Laarell almost... admired the Boganary clan-leader. She wasn't so very different from the less-than-usual female Syndicateers who'd brought about the first gender equality in the Orion culture. Granted, it was a stretch to find anything... commendable... about Wort, but at the same time, greed and ingenuity had to be admired regardless of the circumstances. Apparently this one had done well for herself... she was respected...

 

Not that Laarell really envied a moralless, corrupted, pirate bitch. It was just report of the facts -- she was apparently a woman with a head on her shoulders. If they'd ended up on the same side of things, perhaps the Boganary and Starfleet could have collaborated.

 

Then again, probably not. Starfleet had too many shiny things and pretty ships for Auntie to keep her hands off long enough for alliance to form.

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