Calvert - "Random Occurances" pt2

**Jed Calvert, Another time, another place**
The incline was steep and very unsteady. Jed used his blood stained
hands to pull on tree roots and use them to stop him from falling.
Gravel and soil moved under his feet and he fell flat onto his face.
The tree roots scratched him, and blood poured down a cut on his
cheek, but it didn't show as much as the dried blood that was already
there.
He crawled on all fours like an animal over a thick tree root and
through a prickly bush. Eventually he stopped, and let his body sag
onto the wet floor. But it didn't matter now. As she was in front of
him.
He used all of his remaining energy to look up from the floor. A
woman sat over on a tree stump. She was beautiful, she radiated
with... she radiated. He had to squint as he looked at her, she
glowed so much that it hurt his eyes. She was a young woman with long
hair that framed her face. She wore some kind of casual dress like no
style Jed had seen before. But as the only girls Jed ever saw wearing
dresses were strippers, that didn't count for much. It was pristine
and white, and flowed down to her knees.
Jed wondered how she had kept so clean here. He didn't even need to
look at himself to compare how filthy he was to her.
She stopped singing and looked at him with a ready smile. "Hello."
she said. She didn't have much of an accent, it was plain but
friendly.
She walked over to him and stood over him. Jed scrabbled himself off
the floor and into a sitting position. It hurt too much for him to
stand right now. He just looked up to her as if he was some kind of
child looking up at an adult.
"Are ya an angel?" he asked.
The woman thought about this for a second, then said in a very
patronising voice. "Yes. That's it. An angel."
"Oh." Said Jed.
It was a few seconds before the woman spoke again. "I have to remind
you Jed. That you're still human. Always remember that."
"Right." said Jed, confused.
The problem is, despite Annie trying to help him pretend he was. It
just wasn't true.
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**Back on the Blue Dwarf, Captain's Office**
Captain Calvert remained standing, despite the urge to fall
backwards. He looked down at the wound in his chest. He could see his
own ribs, and wondered why it didnt hurt as much as it should.
Everyone stared in shock at the amount of blood. The amount of thick,
green blood.
Invisible to everyone. Annie appeared next to Potential. Without
looking at her, he said with a big grin. "Beautiful isn't it? The
chances of this were less than 0.00000001%. Can't you just feel all
that random energy in the air? Breath it in Annie!"
Annie put her hands on her hips. "You're not making my job any easier
you know!" she said angrily.