<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/0a/Rudy_reyes.jpeg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Santiago,</span><em>First Mate and "Public Relations"</em><br/>One month ago<br/><em>Mariner's Gate</em>space station<br/>Tagging - Thalia Linnea<br/>Location -<em>Silverlight</em>nightclub<br/><hr/><br/><em>"Did I ever tell you I trained to be a Companion?"</em><br/><br/>Had to blink my eyes real hard because I don't think I heard her right.<br/><br/>"Huh?"<br/><br/>Thought never occurred to me.<br/><br/>"Huh!"<br/><br/>But if she was trained to... go Companioning... then that would make a lot of sense.<br/><br/>"Wow."<br/><br/>She wouldn't lie or kid about it.<br/><br/>It was very rarely that it happened, but I was surprised.<br/><br/>And it explained so gorram much.<br/><br/><em>"Oh, they taught me everything."</em><br/><br/>"Ooh, 'everything?'  Or...<em>everything</em>?"<br/><br/>It was the latter that she meant.<br/><br/>"So, are you going to tell me about all of these<em>everythings</em>.  Or are you going to leave me to contemplate these ideas all by lonesome?"<br/><br/>I hoped for yet another, as yet unnamed option.<br/><br/>