<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3f/Leanna-Decker-Naked-02.jpg)</div><strong>Reader:</strong>Tandy (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=323566.msg15547191#msg15547191)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Galley<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Morning   08/09/2519<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Notation:</strong>Also voting for Bellerophon pickup.<hr/><br/>The young redhead could easily be mistaken for staring dreamily at the others in the room—especially their captain in her exceptionally revealing body armor.  In truth, she was considered the three jobs slowly.<br/><br/>Tandy has always been a bit of an exhibitionist, going bare faced and bare midriffed in a land where many women wore burka and veil.  Truth was, she had already started poking around in cantaloupes to try and find where the Captain had gotten her incredible outfit.  She hadn't manged to find it or anything like it, yet, but Jigs's confident exhibitionism was contagious.  Tandy had managed to position her jeans so low that they revealed more than just the tops of her tattoos.  When she stood they could easily see almost the entire kanji there, and the straps of her purple thong where they rose over her hip, too.  Tandy had also rolled up her striped yellow shirt under her breasts and tied a knot between them.<br/><br/>“I'm not too worried about piracy,” Tandy said after Ace spoke.  “We're all very strong.  I'm new to shipboard life.  I'm not good for very much besides haggling and fighting, but I'm good enough to offer those skills with pride.  They are at your service.  I'll learn more as we go, too.  I already know you're all very good at what you do, and I'm excited to learn from each and every one of you.”<br/><br/>Tandy paused, not sure if she should go so far as to admit what she was thinking.<br/><br/>“Our ship is fully fueled and ship shape.  We don't—as a crew—have any rivals or enemies who look upon our ship with jealous or avarice.  I think we should grab the high yen job while we have that advantage.”<br/><br/>What Tandy left unsaid—and wasn't certain whom the Captain had or hadn't told—was that while the crew as a whole hadn't made any enemies yet, individuals among them might well have.  In her case, the Alliance military had caught onto her gift.  She was a Reader, blessed or cursed with the magic of seeing hearts and reading minds.<br/><br/>To Tandy, it was magic.  A spiritual gift that the Wheel of Dharma or the Will of Allah or the Luck of the Kami or the Angels of the Lord had trusted her with for the duration of this incarnation.  It didn't make her a Bodhisattva or a saint or a witch, it was just something the gods wanted her to have, use, and learn from.  It<em>did</em>make Tandy a target.  The Alliance wanted her.  They didn't care what she had to say about it—or her family either.  Maybe if she stayed as suborn as she was, in the end they would settle for a few bullets to make sure no one else could have her.<br/><br/>Tandy was<em>exactly</em>that stubborn.<br/><br/>So, when she said, 'grab the high yen job while we have that advantage' what she was really thinking was, 'do jobs like that while we still can.  Sooner or later the Alliance will get an inkling of where I am, and then we won't be able to take such rich clients.'<br/><br/>“Besides, I agree with Ace.  This sounds fun.”