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SIX WORD STORIES MEME
TELL A STORY IN SIX WORDS


1. Post your top level with a six word story prompt. Making up your own is fine as well.
2. Other people respond, write a starter, get a thread going somehow.
3. ???
4. Profit!


DON'T LEAVE YOUR TOP LEVEL BLANK!

Original meme from here.

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[astrogator]

[Ari takes the little pile of stones, and quickly arranges them in a pattern, one of the Tradeliner signs, to indicate to anyone who comes by that this is a place of significance. She's thinking about what Paul said. How much would they be able to learn about Dalia? Genetic testing was a possibility, although it brought its own complications. They'd have to see how things developed.

She knows, too, the difficult position Dalia was in. The only higher authority than the ship's captain is the spacer code, and treachery in wartime is certainly a breach of it, but convincing others that their leader is a traitor? That might have proven impossible.]

It's why she had to do it in the way that she did. She must have thought that if she tried to tell the others on her ship, they wouldn't believe her, and then word would get to the captain and she'd be left with no way to stop him. We'll make sure that her story's told now. It's the least we can do.

[When they reach the shuttle, Ari asks Paul to wait outside while she speaks with the captain. It doesn't take long, and she soon emerges again, that same solemn look on her face.]

We're to bring her body back with us, and the rest of the survey team are going to search the wider area. We're not to tell the rest of the crew anything, not until the journal has been authenticated and verified. [Ari's not especially happy about this, but it does make sense. Captain Kavarai wants to ensure it's not a forgery, check that there really was a Dalia Katril on the old astrogation registry, look up her records.] When that's done, though, we're going to have our ceremony, and he's going to invite all the captains in local space.

[As she speaks, she's opening up another of the shuttle hatches, retrieving the antigrav sled, which hovers at an easy height for them to push along, and another, larger bundle of material, which she places on top of it.]