Sunday 23 March 2008

Narrator: In the recruiting queue. . .

Renault: So that's your ship? Impressive.

Elf: We like it. The Touch-And-Go was formerly the Integrity, flagship for "Pranger's Bangers," under the command of Colonel Drake Pranger.

Renault: The Colonel Pranger gave you a warship?

Elf: No, we shot it down, and laid salvage claim to it on Ystre.

Renault: Wow. . . you're beautiful and you've seen real action. Do you have your own cabin there on the "Touch-me-please?"

Elf: I think I left out some key details. Let me fill them in.

Elf: My boyfriend shot down Pranger's flagship. . .

Renault: Oh.

Elf: . . . with an antimatter grenade. . .

Renault: Umm. . .

Elf: . . . That he'd been wearing for years as an epaulet.

Renault: I think I just remembered someplace else I'm supposed to be right now.