vila_restal | Five questions from Avon

Avon asked me five questions.

Question #1. Where do you hide your favorite lock-picks, in the event of capture and search?

Nowhere uncomfortable if that's what you think. I have a few in the seams of my clothes and in my shoes, under the assumption that when they find the ones I have in my pockets, they'll think that's it.

Question #2. What precisely were you convicted of that merited a one-way trip to Cygnus Alpha?

Being incorrigible. They actually caught me robbing a bank, and that was only because there was a loose wire in the security system (shocking standards some tradespeople have) which blew me across the room where I was knocked out cold on the safe-deposit boxes. Bit unfair, wouldn't you say?

But that wasn't worth a life-sentence seeing as I never used violence. You don't get that for plain property crimes, and fair enough too. Nah, it was because they tried to reprogram me again and failed; it seemed to annoyed them a bit.

Question #3. Were you always a vegetarian, and if not, do you remember when you became one and why?

Well, the meat Deltas got was enough to put anyone off--I hated the gristle and fat--so I didn't eat much anyway. along with brussels sprouts and cabbage and mayonnaise and other stuff I didn't like. What really turned me though was having a pet rat when I was six. When you realise that animals have got minds and can think and love and be frightened and all that, well, I just couldn't eat them. And my mum couldn't either when she saw how much it upset me.

Question #4. Do you know how to do a proper hair-cut on someone?

Eh? I've trimmed a few convicts on CF1 where we lived a bit rough, but I prefer the machines. Set the style and length you want and shove your head in. Pretty safe unless ~~someone hacks it so to speak, for example to 'game show host'~~ I mean, unless you try to combine styles that don't match like 'standard geek' and 'successful businessman'.

Question #5. Do you know what is green, has wheels and grows around the Dome?

Grass. You lied about the wheels, didn't you? I know Terran plants don't have them, but I wouldn't take any bets on alien ones, especially where Stark comes from.

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Have we got a hair-cutting machine on Mumak? I keep getting my hair in my eyes on Homeworld and if when we get back to serious rebelling, I'd hate to die because of my coiffure.

In the biography of a Harry Houdini, one of your fellow escape-artists from Old Calendar days, he mentioned taping lockpicks under his toes. I thought that might be useful, if you do run into troopers paranoid enough to make you strip.

Oh. Know about that one, do you? Thought I had some secrets. Let's just hope the troopers are as illiterate as I think they-- ow, Kerril! That hurt. You showed your superior intelligence by leaving. Yeah, I know, that means Tarrant did too, can't have everything...

Oh, and just in case you were wondering, Avon, that's it for anatomical hiding-places. Toes are comfy enough and never searched, specially if you paint the occasional toenail black.

And I thought hair-stylers were standard equipment; even the London had one--that pleased Jenna. There's one in the sun-room off the gym, though I don't think it's very up-to-date. It still has a 'Supreme Commander' (Dayna used that one though it made her spit; I had to rename it the 'buzz-cut') and a 'Star-Killer' though why anyone would want to shave themselves bald is beyond me.

Well, I'll give the machine a try. Maybe they've a 'Puppeteer' style.

Eh? You'll give me nightmares!

[curiously] And what sort of style is that anyway?

[grins] Something sweet.

I assumed it was a 'thinking man's' style...I've never actually seen a puppeteer, have you?

[grimly] I have. You don't want to.

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