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Yaka was immersed.
This was not merely a state of her physical being, since she nearly always was.
She found herself swimming in an ocean of sound, as well as a duplicate of the ocean that had been her birthplace.
The familiar blue flicker near her left caused her to smile a little.
"I see you've implemented the sound system as I had suggested," came the voice she had grown used to hearing.
"I considered it a better solution for portability and your far more sophisticated hearing, Yaka."
Yaka could not see her companion clearly enough to make out her features, but she could clearly hear the pleased smile.
"It's an experience," she replied. "I can feel the sound as well as hear it - I'm glad that the Upper Cetaceans weren't the only ones from the World that were musical."
She laughed, softly.
"I gathered a large library of music from the century or so preceding the Fall. Odd as it may seem, that was my original purpose, collecting and analyzing similarities between music."
Yaka asked, "You were originally a... collector and analyzer of music? Just how much of this was there, and how much demand for aural pattern recognition was there?"
This time, her companion laughed a while before replying.
"Oh, my friend, my companion in the sea of stars - you simply have no idea..."
Yaka joined her friend in the laugh then.
The mirth abated after a march of minutes.
"What's our next op?" Yaka asked, once her desire to laugh had faded enough to speak.
The reply was only a moment in coming. "A calcium extractor on Luna. It's been rogue for a while, and I think it might be repurposed. Recon, scan what you can. If it's just pulling minerals or idle, then we can go deeper. If it's being used for automata, then it's explicitly not under the Mercurials' control."
Yaka was looking at a map and diagram of the facility.
"Small one this time - I'll skim it."
Her companion chuckled. "Be careful about that - high velocities are still high velocities even in Lunar gravity."
"I'd like to try the sound rig for a combat run."
The laugh came again. "I had a feeling you might - my waldos are making sure that the pilot tank's properly rigged."
Yaka gave an approving sound.
If mechanicals were worth taking down, they were worth taking down to a beat...
This was not merely a state of her physical being, since she nearly always was.
She found herself swimming in an ocean of sound, as well as a duplicate of the ocean that had been her birthplace.
The familiar blue flicker near her left caused her to smile a little.
"I see you've implemented the sound system as I had suggested," came the voice she had grown used to hearing.
"I considered it a better solution for portability and your far more sophisticated hearing, Yaka."
Yaka could not see her companion clearly enough to make out her features, but she could clearly hear the pleased smile.
"It's an experience," she replied. "I can feel the sound as well as hear it - I'm glad that the Upper Cetaceans weren't the only ones from the World that were musical."
She laughed, softly.
"I gathered a large library of music from the century or so preceding the Fall. Odd as it may seem, that was my original purpose, collecting and analyzing similarities between music."
Yaka asked, "You were originally a... collector and analyzer of music? Just how much of this was there, and how much demand for aural pattern recognition was there?"
This time, her companion laughed a while before replying.
"Oh, my friend, my companion in the sea of stars - you simply have no idea..."
Yaka joined her friend in the laugh then.
The mirth abated after a march of minutes.
"What's our next op?" Yaka asked, once her desire to laugh had faded enough to speak.
The reply was only a moment in coming. "A calcium extractor on Luna. It's been rogue for a while, and I think it might be repurposed. Recon, scan what you can. If it's just pulling minerals or idle, then we can go deeper. If it's being used for automata, then it's explicitly not under the Mercurials' control."
Yaka was looking at a map and diagram of the facility.
"Small one this time - I'll skim it."
Her companion chuckled. "Be careful about that - high velocities are still high velocities even in Lunar gravity."
"I'd like to try the sound rig for a combat run."
The laugh came again. "I had a feeling you might - my waldos are making sure that the pilot tank's properly rigged."
Yaka gave an approving sound.
If mechanicals were worth taking down, they were worth taking down to a beat...
