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One Last Cigarette

Corbet stood at his version of the position of attention waiting for the captain’s voice.
“You may enter.”
“Thank you sir i am sorry to disturb you.”
“No, you only think you are sorry, this better not be about the duel.”
“Please sir hear me out. This can’t happen, it isn’t fair for her to die here, inside the ship.” Corbet Bell pleaded
On the other side of the ship in the medical bay, A porcelan goddess of a woman lay exposed, nude on a mantinence table, while dozens or robotic limbs worked on her mechanical shoulder and arm. The xo showed no shame as she calmly read a book completely naked.
Eddie’s arm handed a lighter to his brother as he lit a hand rolled cigarette.
“Doctor could I trouble you for one also, "Leutinent Orihime asked.
She licked her lips in anticipation and then set the blaze, pulling in a thick plume of smoke and spoke, “That is how she found me, alone drifting, no fuel, she felt the heat from my last cigerette before Sepaku. She changed course on her own and found me; The ship saved me.”

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