Remarkably, the plan goes off without a hitch. Despite Natsuno’s healing abilities, which they must take great pains to hide, he makes for a good stowaway-turn-Blood of Eden recruit. He’s seething with anger, and he doesn’t say much, and his eyes speak of pain that most of the ship’s crew recognizes and all know better than to ask about. Maybe a few members of Blood of Eden are puzzled as to why a former refugee has become the Sixth’s closest confidant, but even that doesn’t raise too many questions.
When the Blood of Eden ship hails the Sixth House station, it’s Archivist Juno Zeta who speaks over the intercom, and Archivist Juno Zeta who allows them to dock when they reveal that they have the Sixth’s presumed-dead cavalier primary on board. There’s an awed crowd waiting when Camilla and Natsuno step out of the airlock (Palamedes-as-Camilla had insisted that Natsuno be the only BoE representative to accompany him on his first visit), and Zeta pushes through it and guides them back to her office as quickly as she can.
For the time being, dark sunglasses remain on Camilla’s face, hiding her grey eyes from view.
The moment the door is shut, Zeta pulls Camilla into a tight hug. “My dear girl, you are a sight for sore eyes.”
Sixth House Time!
When the Blood of Eden ship hails the Sixth House station, it’s Archivist Juno Zeta who speaks over the intercom, and Archivist Juno Zeta who allows them to dock when they reveal that they have the Sixth’s presumed-dead cavalier primary on board. There’s an awed crowd waiting when Camilla and Natsuno step out of the airlock (Palamedes-as-Camilla had insisted that Natsuno be the only BoE representative to accompany him on his first visit), and Zeta pushes through it and guides them back to her office as quickly as she can.
For the time being, dark sunglasses remain on Camilla’s face, hiding her grey eyes from view.
The moment the door is shut, Zeta pulls Camilla into a tight hug. “My dear girl, you are a sight for sore eyes.”