Kyla – Second Class Mage / Medical Officer – Quicksilver

  So, maybe I might have gone a bit too far. It had been a very long time since I had anyone to call my own, let alone anything resembling sex. I knew this was because I was on the ship more often than on a planet, but it still hurt. Especially when nearly everyone else on the ship was entangled with one or more other people.

  Maybe if some of them were as driven as me, then I could have found someone to be with, but none of them were. None of them did every quest that they could unless they needed something. I did every quest I was given. In fact, I had been given a quest to help this human make the transition.

  I even knew why I was the one who was given this quest instead of someone else on the ship. My grandmother used to tell me stories of her change. The feelings, the fear, the shock. She said she would not have gotten through it without her close friend and my grandfather.

  While this did hint that we could become something more than friends, the system could never guarantee such a thing. That would be up to me and how attached he became. Or at least that was what the system said. I wasn’t so sure. The only thing I was sure of was that it could not directly affect a person unless they agreed to the change.

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  Now, if the person didn’t happen to read what they were agreeing to? It could take advantage of such a situation to try and steer events one way or another in situations like this.

  Maybe that was why it had insisted that our ship retrieve this human. Could it have seen in them something that would fill some hole for one of us? For me? Nah. I was just going to complete the quests. Possibly comfort her and help her get used to her body. Yeah, I think I will help her get used to her body. If doing so ends up with her helping me with some of my needs, well, who could blame me.

  Rolling a bit, I moved next to her. Pulling her closer to me until her head was in my chest. She curled up against me and seemed to relax. For some odd reason, I couldn’t make myself leave her. Something in me wanted to stay and watch over her. To keep her safe as she went through this transition.

  Calling up my AI, I sent a message to the current duty officer saying that I would be taking some time to myself. Her reply came nearly instantly. ‘About time you took some vacation.’ What could I say, I was constantly working.