Branches Book

BRANCHES

As Kurt engaged in the vicious shootout, his mind wandered to his summers on the Moons of Kundera. Long sun filled days spent busy doing nothing, drunk on love and only a little bit of Space Wine. As time and his perception as an individual consciousness in an ever expanding universe began to break down, Kurt found himself simultaneously in the mefria fields of Kundera-3, in the Kwikbena Cantina exchanging laser blasts with a relentless red assassin, and in the thrilling escape from the Kwikbena Cantina he was about to dopishly help orchestrate. Part 5: It was from the way that Kurt Vanbis screamed in terror as each of his own shots fired from his blaster, along with the intermittent glossing over of his ferris wheel looking eyes as the Shwayze Slap carried him on whatever adventure it had planned this time, that TriPhee knew her best customer was far too inebriated to fight their attacker. As she finished reloading in her cover behind the bar, she lamented that she always had to do all of the work. She grabbed her strongest gin. (A century old craft from the Aiiyri Asteroid Colonies.) TriPhee rose from behind the bar and tossed the 40 IGC a shot liquor towards the alien she wouldn’t know to be named Kluub. She quickly followed up with two shots from her plasma shotgun, one caught Kluub in the leg, the other caught the gin in mid air. The resulting explosion caught Kluub, well, almost everywhere. “Run Kurt you Shwayze idiot!” Ordered TriPhee as she hopped over the bar and ran towards the exit in the rear. She threw open the door as Kurt and Captain tried to follow her. Captain was currently under the impression that his body was not real, and that he was actually a floating meta being. This while he also had never been itchier and more aware of his boby in his life. Kurt was still experiencing time as a crumpled up blanket rather than a straight line, so he knew how the escape would play out. He did his best to to follow along. The three burst through the last door as blaster fire chased them down the hallway and into the alley behind the Kwikbena Cantina. The cantina was only two blocks from the transport back to the city. TriPhee beckoned the men to follow her as she ran down the alley. Captain found the alley to be upside down, and Kurt found the alley as it was three hundred years ago. TriPhee turned up a pathway to the main street, and Captain and Kurt did their best to follow. They came out on the busier street, and made a beeline for the transport center.

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