Her counterpart didn't seem to be all that unhappy, though, Setsuna noted.
"Idiots. Damn Juraian wood-brained idiots. Why couldn't they bother explaining that they were on a refugee-and-otherwise ferrying mission before running like crazed cabbits, anyway?"
Oh, well, well, well. Diana--humanoid now for the duration--snickered at her Princess and Captain, and turned back to her C-Desk.
"Riding a former-warship-converted-to-maybe-armed-supply-ship rustbucket like that in Slaver-infested territory, filled to the brim and beyond with people, and then trying to get past with a "Jurain Navy business", indeedy!"
Not to mention that it was pretty much common knowlege that certain segments of the Juraian Navy proper were in rather good terms with certain slavers...
"Well, at least we managed to get everybody off without loss of life, ma'am."
"--Damn rustbucket with it's antiquated AI's--At least with a Treeship, any kind of Treeship, I would have been able to give it a piece of my mind, but noo..."
Captain Tsukino-Chiba Usagi pulled furtily at her dark pink curls.
"Dammit."
"Here, let me do that, Usagi."
It was only the two of them. Diana could afford to be somewhat informal.
"--Now tell me straight, Diana. Is this going to be another Incident?"
"...I don't think they'd be much trouble, actually. Even the Juraians would have to admit they were acting as suspicious as hell, I think. --They'd probably scream more about the loss of the ship, frankly."
"--OK, OK, give the Juraian High Command another little present. A armed mini-carrier, or something...Or maybe I should just give it directly to our little pack of stubborn idiots?"
"That might be a better idea, actually... Though I'd try to talk to them first."
"Hmm, alright."
Tsukino-Chiba Usagi slowly swiveled her chair around, and sighed.
"Are the Wood-headed Ones still screaming about brainwashing anc mindprogramming, by the way?"
"Not at the moment since they're all still unconsious yet. No doubt they'll start right up, once they wake up...Ahh. The short analysis of the passengers are coming up--You were right, Usagi. 17 of them appear to be Neo Silver Millenium citizens, gone "a-adventuring"."
Diana smirked. Going "adventuring" actually was quite popular about the more adventurous segment of the NSM population--Which most certainly included a certain pink-haired heir apperant, to put things in short words.
But her Princess was grimancing, for some reason.
"17? Are you sure? I was almost sure they were more then that..."
"Hmm." Diana muttered.
" Maybe you should come over and look over them in person, then?"
And in the dining room of the Spa At The End Of Time...
Somebody giggled.
Insanity lurked in the breeze...
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