Let It Snow Let It Snow
Let It Snow Let It Snow
Let It Snow Let It Snow
Summary
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The snow falls down, it blankets the dull muddy soil and dull muddy buildings on a part
terraform (its definetly a work in progress) mining planet. Officer Blake blinks and stares
through the snow.
How wierd, there is a small human form trudging through the snow towards the spaceship he
is on. Aside from the fact that no sane human would be out in this, his ship holds the only
humans (and several living assets) on the planet. He mentally counts his crew,1,2,3 etc
checks the roster and the humans are all ship board.
The assets are Yautja, part of a joint species endeavour to eliminate common foes. They tend
to keep themselves to themselves.They are all here to meet with a senior Yautja to deliver
intel, the assets have left to meet with said individual, reputed to be THE Yautja's Yautja,
with a fiersome reputation for brutality combined with efficency. Possessor it is said of many
hunting trophies, including, it is whispered in these more PC times, human skulls.
One of the asset, Ali'thrall is taller than most his race, gangly but showing promise of filling
out to match the spectacular physique of the other assets on board. Ali is popular with the
human crew, understanding earth humour, vocalising the human tongue to a degree without a
translator, often using the verb Fuck, certain crew members have in turn taken to using Yautja
terms, officer Blake caught one saying Pauk.
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The small human stops in front of the entry hatch and looks up expectantly and says " can I
use your toilet please? Its the cold you know"
She trips in wearing a slightly moth eaten fur coat, wooly hat, mittens and thigh high boots.
Having used the "loo" she quite implausibly grabs Ali by the paw and exits, dragging him
unwilling out down the ramp, excitedly claiming " it will be fun".
Ali gangles behind, slightly slouching as he is pulled along by a creature objectively small
enough for him to kill with one blow. Officer Blake has the presence of mind to press
"record".
Then the human giggling runs of shrieking "chase me, chase me, you cant catch me" not
something anyone with a brain would encourage an apex predator to do. Officer Blake by
now on the observation deck with his human colleagues goggles. She spins and throws a well
aimed projectile at Ali's head.
Pauk me thinks Officer Blake, they are playing snow balls, as Ali bends, picks up a paw load
of snow and lobs a snow ball back.
They pelt each other, the returning group of assets having been pelted, assess threat level as
0% and recognising the human join in. Gradually crew members, bored so long by just
hanging around come down the ramp and join in. It is, in fact, great fun, a sress releaver, an
opportunity to bond.
Then one miss aimed snowball hits a solid yet invisible wall. A Yautja, clocked, massive, not
one of the assets. Three red dots appear on the female's face, the air shimmers blue with the
outline of an uncloaking warrior.
The fearsome form spins, weapon of choice ready, he hurls it with terrifying accuracy. A
huge snowball rounded carefully enough to spin, yet not enough to hurt, only sting, hits
Tamsin full in her face.
She shreiks in mock rage, runs off towards a mound of snow that promises to provide more
ammo. Suddenly she is caught thrown into the air landing in the middle of the deep snow
bank, the huge form leaps to follow her into the mound of snow...
The assets and crew eventually return to the ship, happily ribbing each other about which
species had won.
" What about that women ?" Officer Blake asks? Ali and the assets regard him, biomasks
unblinking.
He can see human and Yautja footsteps from the snow bank leading to a Yautja war bird,
cloaked but its form outlined by the snow. A snow man complete with four of what looks like
carrots for mandibles sits by it.
Later as the spaceship heads of into hyperspace he reviews and replays the same bit of
footage over and over and over again, Ali as he was dragged along surely hasnt really trilled "
oh mom" at the female human has he?
End Notes
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