Celes Victoria shook her head as she drive back from the Star Port. She was having a bitch of a time keeping her mind focused on the road. She had no idea what was wrong with her. Her stomach was swimming in her belly, her head was pounding, her shoulder ached, and she felt generally crappy beyond belief.
She even fell down in the middle of that ships cargo bay. Something had to be wrong with her. She needed to go to the doctor, she knew that much, but even staying on the road was so hard. Her head as pounding and her vision was so blurry that she could barely even see the road ahead of her. Fighting to even keep her eyes open she pulled over to the side of the road that connected the Star Port to the town proper and turned the key to her hover car.
Slowly the hum of the lift fans faded along with the comforting dull roar of the triple turbines that could propel her battered, but well loved, little sports car to almost ludicrous speeds when she needed to make those long runs to the ranches located way off the beaten path. With a light thud the X-34 landed on its tricycle undercarriage and she no longer had to worry about the frictionless vehicle getting away from her and slip sliding off of the road and into something dangerous.
Fighting to even keep her head up Celes reached into her pocket and started fumbling for her phone. She needed to call for help. She just felt so... so...
Panting for breath she felt her center of gravity slipping and attempted to brace herself with her arm, but she was too weak to support her own weight and fell stumbling into her passenger seat. Feeling like her entire body was asleep, she tried to call out for help but even her vocal cords refused to obey her, releasing only a low, pitiful squeak.
As her vision blurred, and everything faded to black, her befuddled mind was filled with terror. Was this it? Was she done for?
– – –
Several hours later, she awoke from her unplanned slumber and slowly lifted herself from her seat and rubbed her eyes and turned, looking towards the mid day sun.
Rubbing her eyes, Celes shook her head in surprise. When she'd stopped it had been late at night, the end of her shift, the last run before she went home, but now it was the middle of the day. That wasn't saying as much as it would on a planet with a more Earth normal rotation, but even with a 18 Standard Hour rotational cycle, passing out late in the evening and waking up just shy of noon time was still a reasonably long nap.
What really surprised her was that she didn't feel sick anymore. In fact, she didn't even feel any of the assorted aches and pains she should have gotten from sleeping for so long in such an awkward position. She actually felt good. No, scratch that. She felt beyond good. She felt great. No, she felt beyond great, she felt like a million credits! She felt...
Her stomach roared with almost comical volume.
She felt hungry. Really damned hungry. She felt 'eat now or starve to death' hungry. She needed to get something in her belly and fast.
Gunning her engine, Celes put all other concerns to the side. Going home wouldn't sate this hunger, not with the half gallon of milk and the half of a head of brown lettuce she had sitting in the fridge. She wanted food, she wanted meat, and she wanted it right here and right now. Luckily there was a place in town where she could get that. So it was, without a second thought that she laid in a course for Biggin Beefy's All Ya Can Eat BBQ Buffet, feeling like she could pack down a whole damned cow.
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