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would be a lot more frequently now. Things were starting to return to a semblance of normal,<br />
and the frantic struggles of the past two months were starting to fade.<br />
"How's Mary doing?"<br />
Emily shrugged, causing Julie to grin as she felt the movement.<br />
"The repairs to her ship self are going to take another four months at least, but she's actually<br />
starting to get through to that captured Bak'ra."<br />
They'd captured what they were starting to understand was a Bak'ra leader at Mars dome. The<br />
woman, well Julie supposed it was a woman under all those cybernetics, had been found<br />
seriously injured <strong>by</strong> the Imperial Marine's who had arrived from Earth.<br />
Emily had wanted to kill the Bak'ra immediately.<br />
Julie had stood up to her and told the First Guardian how valuable it would be to actually figure<br />
out how the Bak'ra thought.<br />
It had been a tense few minutes, on the command deck of North Star. The two had glared at each<br />
other, while Angwar and the rest of the First Guardian's command staff had tried to pretend they<br />
were somewhere, anywhere else.<br />
The anticipated explosion had never come though, and Emily had smiled slowly. Telling Julie<br />
that if she thought she could figure out what to do with the Bak'ra then fine, she could deal with<br />
the thing, but if Emily heard it had caused any problems at all Emily would personally see that it<br />
was disposed of.<br />
Julie had smiled sweetly and immediately put Mary in charge of the Bak'ra prisoner.<br />
Something that had so far turned out fairly well with the young Guardian from Maine managing<br />
to learn bits and pieces from their prisoner. It wasn't easy, the Bak'ra mindset was completely<br />
different than anything that humans or Tiri were familiar with, but there was some progress.<br />
That and, as Julie had told the still somewhat miffed First Guardian, it kept Mary out of trouble.<br />
Which they both agreed was worth a bit of risk, considering what the ex-hacker was capable of<br />
now that she was a full Guardian.<br />
Emie traced a path with her fingertips up the smaller woman's back. Julie sighed with pleasure,<br />
but kept up her questioning.<br />
"That's not what I meant. How's she doing with our guest?"<br />
Long elegant fingers suddenly tickled her and Julie yelped in surprise, reaching back and<br />
capturing the offending fingers, laughing.
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