Niples "Queen's proposal"

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"HI NIP> BIT BSY RGT NOW. WILL CLL U ABT WH WHEN DNE. IS EFOF WIT U? NDD TO
SPK TO HM. TTFN."
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WHO: Seymour Niples, Efof Yuwan'kar, Queen Brittany Jennifer Royal
WHERE: Planet "New Ibiza", Queens's bedroom
WHEN: Just after recieving the text message from Phil
Seymour read the message. "Damn, he might be a while. We'll have to stay
here until they can come. And Efof, he says he needs to speak to you."
Efof blinked in surprise as he came out of his own little day dream world.
“Needs to speak to me?!” He said excitedly. Seymour handed him the phone and
Efof bounded outside happily shouting “I’ve got a friend, I’ve got a
friend!” and proceeded to ring Phil back.
Seymour was left in the room with the queen, there was an awkward silence.
“he gets like that sometimes.” Seymour said, pointing in the direction of
the Ffionian.
The queen nodded and didn’t know what else to say. After a few moments of
each other staring at blank walls she spoke.
“Well….thanks… I mean for trying to help me.”
“But I thought you hated being Queen? I thought you’d be begging me to not
force you to go back.”
“Well the royal guard would track me down eventually, then I’d have to go
home. At least if your plan works I can still do whatever I want.”
Seymour smiled.
“…And I know you didn’t just do it for yourself, you were thinking about the
big picture. You’re a very good person Captain. I’ve been following your
career with quite a lot of interest. You’re one of the last of the dying
breed of gentlemen…”
“About that ‘Captain’ thing…” Seymour butted in.
“I know, I know. I’ll try and pull a few strings in the J.M.C and get you
your old job back. But what I really wanted….. well if you wouldn’t mind…..
if you’re interested…”
“Interested in what ma’am?”
“In having a new job, as my Royal Ambassador. Still on the Blue Dwarf, but
to negotiate with any aliens you come across, about possible trade with
Britain. And of course to keep me informed of everything exciting that goes
on, you must have an exciting job!”
Seymour frowned, it was actually pretty boring. With space being so big they
hardly meet any aliens. The weirdest life forms they had seen so far were
probably the crew. And the job sounded very made up, maybe it would be a
good break from the stress of being Captain, but what about his dream to one
day be Captain of a huge military battleship? It was a hard decision, he
didn’t know whether to take to job or not.
“I’ll have to think about it ma’am, it’s a very tempting offer.”
“On one condition…”
“Which is?”
“Don’t call me ma’am!”
****later***
Seymour had gone for a walk to think about the new job proposal. He found
the Starbug he had brought and parked it in the Queen’s hotel’s private car
park. As he landed on the landing pad, the floor retracted underground to
lead the Starbug into an underground car-parking chamber. Steel metal beams
held the natural rock walls up in the car-park cavern. Seymour got out and
looked around, seeing lots of other space vehicles, some very sporty
looking. Then his eyes fixed on the one he was looking for.
The Space Eagle.
Shining in the spotlights he had forgotten how beautiful his ship looked,
especially as he hadn’t seen it for so long. Efof had given him the keys so
he got into the pilots seat and started the engine.
The shiny green Space Eagle roared through the underground cavern towards
the exit, it came out halfway up a cliff face with a beautiful picturesque
river ebbing below. It screamed through the valley, dodging between the
cascading waterfalls and overhanging plant life that came from the cliffs
above.
As the cliffs broke away to the open sea, Seymour shouted apologies to the
hundreds of sunbathers on the beach he just sped over, covering them with
sand that stuck to their sun-lotioned bodies.
This was a fantastic place for a holiday, he thought. He could imagine him
and Katrina sipping cocktails from iced glasses on the beach, maybe he
should suggest to Whitewolf to bring the Blue Dwarf here for shore leave.
The crew must be sick to death of being stuck on the ship by now.
The Space Eagle roared on.
David "Onion" Ball
Captain Seymour Niples, JMC Blue Dwarf
WWW.BlueDwarf.co.uk
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He went to kiss her, but remembering her recent wave of vomiting, thought
better of it and went to kiss her hand. The first one he went for was
covered in vomit, so he changed his mind and went for the other. That one
was covered in blood.
What a predicament for a gentleman.
(Katrina Swete+Seymour Niples, BlueDwarf.co.uk)
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