Perspective

<snip>
Jamie looked at Evelina in her stunning outfit before he replied, "If you're bored I could use a hand again." Evelina smiled as she replied, "Sure I was getting bored with nothing to do." Then Evelina began helping Jamie with his projects hoping to get her mind off her personal problems.
</snip>

He wouldn't be a difficult person to seduce, oh no. Not by any stretch of the imagination. He'd been alone on a jungle planet for 10 years. He'd been working to survive for so long that it was all he knew.

"Hold the end of this, would you?" Jamie asked, propping a log up on a flat rock. He held a saw in his other hand, and as soon as Eve had supported it, he started cutting.

"Why don't you use a power saw?" Eve asked, holding it with both hands, leaning over it to add more weight, which only really served to reveal more of her genetically engineered body to him.

"I've never really liked powered tools. Then, after I spent ten years on Fernandos, I just can't use them any more. They don't feel right." He replied, cutting expertly into the fresh wood. Sweet smelling sawdust floated around in the seaside breeze, mixing with the sea air.

Eve nodded in understanding, then an hour or two passed in near silence as Jamie cut more wood, with Eve helping out. It wasn't long before there was a noticeable structure stood on the beach.

"Look." Jamie said, after a while. "I know you're upset, and you feel like you can't do anything to help." He continued, putting down his tools.

"You're right, no one is listening to me." Eve said, sounding obviously upset.

"I haven't been onboard for a huge amount of time, and I didn't know Jaxx before any of this. I can see that he has feelings for you, and you obviously do for him. But That's just it. You're not out here by yourself. We're all here together." Jamie said, watching everyone play in the water for a bit.

"I know!" Eve said. "Jaxx has done a lot to help some of them. and he just got locked up because of it."

"Not everyone can see it like that." Jamie continued. "Yes, Jaxx is a good fighter. But he seems to just do things for you. I'm always in engineering, so I don't see all of it, but I know that everyone here is hurting right now."

"They think Jaxx killed Katrina..." Eve said, thinking back to what Jaxx had told her.

"No. Jaxx wasn't there, he couldn't have." Jamie said. "Lindstrom did that."

"So why do you think they locked him up?" Eve asked. Jamie hadn't shouted at either of them, or done anything but help, even down to repairing and upgrading the skutter he was stuck in.

"They've all told you, from what I've heard. They think he's dangerous, and only capable of fighting and destroying things. He led the charge against the miners, to protect you. Not to protect everyone, just you. He hurt a lot of people that didn't need to be hurt."

"so you think they're right?"

"I didn't say that. I'm just an engineer. They know him better than I do, so I can only trust what they're doing is right. On Fernandos, the Ssala helped me because I helped them. I fought alongside them against the Haruk. Right now, they don't think he's doing things to help everyone, and that's dangerous. Give them time to calm down, and give Jaxx time to figure this out for himself."

Eve stood still for a while, obviously taking in what had been said.

"While you think, pass me that bag of nails, would you?" Jamie asked, picking up the hammer nearby.

<tag>