Chapter 24 - Teaser! (Patreon)

The short nature of this month means I'm a little behind in completing the chapter, but it should hopefully be done mostly on schedule.  I created a new really long and interesting scene to add to the story, but I might have bitten off more than I can chew in other ways.  I may need to cut some off and reallocate it to the next chapter.  :-)

Hope you enjoy the teaser!

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Onboard The Flighty Temptress. Inside Nebula 3254671.

I was surrounded by constantly moving swirls of lavender and pink. While I remained still, these clouds moved around me and surrounded me, sometimes blinding me entirely for several moments, until a small break in the storm opened up and I could see even greater majesty for a time. Sights like these still filled me with wonder and I hoped that that never changed.

Of course, these weren’t ‘clouds’ per se, nor was I in the middle of a ‘storm’. What they were was dense concentrations of energetic particles, made up of many, many different compounds and elements, all moving to an unseen music. This nebula hadn’t even been given a proper name by the Federation, being an all too common class 9 nebula in their classification system, but it served my purposes well as it had sensor deceiving properties that would hopefully hide my ship from detection until it was too late. It might be common, but that didn’t take anything away from its beauty, or its utility in this situation.