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Date Posted: 20:38:25 07/27/01 Fri
Author: Embyr
Subject: Sometimes she surprised herself...
In reply to: Senator Decius 's message, ""Indeed we do."" on 02:35:54 07/27/01 Fri

"Hmmph...'I once knew an Actionmaster.'...where did I pull THAT one from, eh?" she thought, as her optics scanned Decius through their tarnished mountings. She knew full well the irony of what she had said, but she understood Decius' agenda--or at least thought she did. It would be dangerous to say for sure she knew what he was about until she knew more but, to garner support, she would say anything parallel to a potential ally's views.

Transforming was painful for her these days, but not impossible. She spent most of her time in robot mode, but longed for the days where in a matter or seconds, panels flipped and gears turned, and she was soaring the skies with her Decepticon brethren. When she left Cybertron to begin her quest, she did it under her own power. Returning via shuttlecraft, even to take up an honored position in the senate, still shamed her somehow.

"Desperation then....a gamble, based on accounts that every being is affected differently...but worth the risk, certainly. To find its coordinates once more--someone must remember from before the great quarantine, certainly not this new generation of beasts scurrying about...but even one of MY kind might have had contact, long ago..."

She recieved an internal readout from the room's sensors. The dishevelled, darkened array of maps, charts, inanimate carbon rods, and holoframes masked her crudely constructed scanners, culled from various alien technologies acquired in her myriad journies. They were slow, but efficient. Decius was clean; no bugs, no masked frequency boradcasting. Nevertheless, she spoke carefully, with as much caution as any of the senators would. Her instruments could always be wrong...

"THis is indeed a dark time for the warriors of CYbertron. Primal's sacrifice may have been the Dawn of a new age, but it will take time foR some of the popUlace to catch up...not everyone reacheS paradise together. Sometimes, the blind must be led away from the Flames. Othertimes, the jOurney must be UndeRtaken TOGETHER."

She smiled slightly, and wondered if her confusing blend of metaphors were showing Decius her age or her ingenuity. At times, even she had her doubts. But it was a complex game of chess Lady Embyr played, one where the prize was the very Board itself...

Embyr wondered what Decius' next words would be...

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