There, a met glance. Meia blushing and looking down as if she found something fascinating in the meal.
Jura's voice was low. "Did you notice how much Meia's eaten?"
"Yeah..." Barnette said in an equally low voice. Much as she hated to admit it in this case, Jura was right. As the minutes went by, Meia hardly ate anything. Not to say she didn't touch her food, but darn little of it reached her mouth and when she looked at Dita trying to spoonfeed "Mister Alien" that look was...
Envy?
"Oh my dear stars," whispered Barnette. Envy, and she'd seen that look before. That wistful look that indicated she was imagining herself in Dita's place.
"You see," said Jura. "Now we know What. We have a pretty good idea When. That leaves the How and Why."
"We know 'when'? What do you..." Barnette's pupils shrunk to pinpoints. "That was them?!"
"We know something happened then, and much as I'd like to think it was something I did, we know it came from elsewhere. Dita's mentioned 'strange alien powers before. Maybe she's onto something?"
Barnette swallowed nervously. "B-b-but."
"Come on, we've seen all we need to see here," said Jura as she got up and started walking off.
Barnette hurried to catch up. "But if they did that and then we... I mean..."
"When Dita and Hibiki combine fighters to form VanDread Dita, she sits on his lap. When Meia and Hibiki combine to VanDread Meia, he is sitting on her lap. When he combines with me, we sit side by side in something rather like a love seat out of a lounge," speculated Jura. "I wonder what the arrangement will be when you combine with him."
"ME?!" practically shrieked Barnette.
"With Dita, he is dominant? Meia dominates him? He's on an equal footing with myself?" Jura continued to speculate. "You are usually antagonistic towards him - so perhaps you'll end up facing each other or back-to-back."
"Urk," said Barnette as she pictured herself and Hibiki in a number of odd positions.
"I wonder if you would end up with something elegant," wondered Jura aloud about the form of VanDread Barnette.
"Urk," said Barnette as she continued to picture herself and Hibiki in a number of odd positions.
Jura continued forward a few yards before she realized Barnette was standing behind her and twitching a lot. "Oh come on! We have to figure out what those two did that... no. Strike that. It's perfectly obvious what they did. How and Why."
"I'm pretty sure I'm not ready for the How," said Barnette in a weak voice.
Jura flipped her hair back. "I am. And I think the answer to those two questions is something that one of two people on board might have. The Captain was around during the time men and women were together. If not, it might be something the Doctor has information on."
"Maybe his Vanguard has clues?" suggested Barnette - not out of some desire to get an answer but out of worry that Jura might get some weird idea that Barnette really didn't feel ready to explore.
(Posted Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:54)
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