On 7/30/99 at 11:00 PM, sommer@3rdm.net (DB Sommer) wrote:

Alan Harnum wrote"

    "The Phantom Tribe..." she murmured.  Her scans, taken in
less than a second, indicated the armour was compositionally
identical to steel.  Their weapons were unknown; the metal of the
bows and spears they held was like nothing she had ever seen,

Although the suction cups on the ends of the arrows made her downgrade
their damage capability assessment.

Been talking to Millie again?

but not threatening.

    Makoto had set her free from the compunction to kill at the
command of others.

Now she simply killed for her own amusement.

Baka.

Don't you talk dirty about Ifurita-sama. |<

* * *

    "You must feel lucky that I requested you ride in my
personal skimmer," Fatora said from where she sat across from
him.

Makoto: If you mean lucky in the sense that I have to put up with a
stuck up bitch like yourself, then the answer is yes, I am quite

lucky.

Oh, he's *very* lucky. All of it bad, but hey, can't have everything,
ne?

    "I may have spoken harshly to you earlier this morning," he
said stiffly.  "I wanted to apologize."  Frankly, it bothered him
to have to appeal to the programmed emotions of a machine, but
Deva had been moody since their conversation in the rain, and a
moody Bugrom Queen didn't seem like a good idea.

No; it doesn't

<growl>

I felt some sympathy for Jinnai at the end of the OAV series. I have
*none* remaining for him here, and his reducing Diva and the Bugrom to
'thing'-ness like this is the main reason why. It makes me see red, and
I have a sneaking suspicion that's exactly what Alan wanted.

    He loved her, because Makoto did, and he had to love what
Makoto loved, for he loved Makoto, who had set him free.

    Mardruk slept, and dreamt of flight.

Interesting little side bit.

True. I felt it was pretty contrived -- his memories of hatred of an
Ifurita that laughed at him as she slew him, nurtured over thousands of
years, set as naught with a short mental conversation? But it was
contrived in a WAFFy way, and I'm willing to forgive a lot for good
WAFF.

    "Run and get Miz and Afura and Fujisawa-sensei as fast as
you can," Nanami said, not paying attention to either him or
Shayla.  "My brother just went down the middle of the river in a
boat full of Bugrom."

And no one else noticed?

Oh, at this point, *I* noticed, and figured out what was going on... :)

    Jinnai cackled.  "Why?  We're shielded by the hand of God,
if you don't forget."

    Deva closed her eyes.  The antenna-like hairs sprouting from
the centre of her forehead twitched slightly.  "Yes," she said,
half-wearily.  "The hand of God."

One really wonders why she puts up with him at times.

    He turned his eyes back to the angels and sighed gently.
"You're new at this, or something, aren't you?"

Heh; nice work as always, not as much to comment on this time around.

<Nod>

Good show.