<strong>-- Explorator Thraxius --</strong>(http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=103946.msg4515299#msg4515299)<br/><hr/><br/>Thraxius waited.  And waited.  After a moment more he called out again, perhaps thinking that Cortez had not heard him from across the room.  His eye narrowed into a fierce red slit when no answer was received, and with a blusterous stride he made the door and glanced down the hallway beyond.  Nothing.<br/><br/>A puff of irritated smog belched from the censer on his back, and a veritable<em>wave</em>of sparks poured from his joints as he angrily slammed the door closed behind him, effectively blocking the unseen Kroot's entrance.<br/><br/><em>"Either the damnable Captain is playing tricks on me, or I've finally gone completely and utterly insane,"</em>he muttered, tugging at the thick tubing running from his throat.<em>"As if that blowhard doesn't have important work to be doing."</em>