Lady Lucky, Part 2

Lady Lucky, Part 2

By Matthew "Snooglebum" Wasik

[Missed the beginning of the series? Click here to go to part 1.]

“So.” said Melody, putting down the book. “Personal question?”

Whisper opened an eye, turning to look at Melody. The two were still in the medbay, Melody having stopped reading mid-sentence. The day was turning to evening, amd the next jump was the last on the Lady Lucky’s journey to the nearest space station.

“Come on babe, we’ve come way too far to worry about that shit. Ask me anything.” said Whisper, grinning. “I mean, it’s our two-year anniversary in, what, a month?”

“Three weeks.” said Melody, smiling. “You were close. I’d give you a prize, but… you already won my heart.”

“Hah! Real smooth, girl. Real smooth.”

“I think you’re exaggerating, but thank you.” said Melody, her smile stretching further.

“So… what was your question?”
The smile slowly vanished from Melody’s face, and her expression turned serious.

“I was just curious…” she started hesitantly, “I know Brands have a sort of mental link to their Patrons… does yours ever talk to you?”

Lady Lucky, Part 1

Lady Lucky, Part 1

By Matthew “Snooglebum” Wasik

There was Old Earth, and then there was the Exodus. Humanity, knowing its world was dying, packed settlers aboard a colony ship and sent them off to the nearest habitable star system. But the ship’s warp drive, untested and unproven, failed them. Instead of arriving at their intended destination, they arrived in a strange, unearthly place. Physics failed on a planetary level, with some planets orbiting around nothing, and others existing in non-spherical states. Anomalies were rampant, great gouts of fire and arcs of electricity springing from nothing. The entire observable universe rotated around a single, massive black hole. Something had gone terribly wrong; this was not the universe as humanity knew it, this was somewhere else entirely.

They called this place the Void.

Welcome to Voidscape.

All was quiet in Estris, an unsettled system off the back end of Collective space. The system was a colorful one, filled with clouds of multicolored gas that joined into a riotous display of color. Arcs of lightning danced from cloud to cloud, throwing their hues into sharp relief, as shards of glass-like debris floated throughout the system, reflecting the light and turning the display truly psychedelic.