âWell, more⌠I sell weapons,â Valâan explained. She hadnât really covered it well enough to avoid confusion. Maybe because she was trying to rush this without being quite aware of it herself. You know, like how one might sweep some glass shards under the rug and hope no one brings up the missing cup. âBut I donât store them well, and uhâŚâ She gave a little shrug with her hands up in the air a little below her shoulder height. âWhoops.â
Yes. Whoops. Making the Eclipse youâre trying to sell to want your hide. Just a whoops. She repeated, âItâs volatile.â The she shook her head and corrected. âToxic. Itâs toxic.â With a wide hand gesture in an attempt to illustrate how big of an area sheâd affected, though not quite able to bring that across on account of her small size, she said, âEntire container, contaminated.â
She wasnât whispering, unlike what some might do if they had gotten some beef with one of the main gangs, but she did speak more softly than usual. Of course, she was unnaturally chipper about it all. Outwardly so, at least.
âSurprisingly, my roommate is not toxic. Maybe a little disinterested, but not toxic,â she finally answered on Sabiqâs last questions with a little shake of the head and a gesture of both her hands like pushing the very notion of it away. Though, that may have been a confusing use of the term, so she quickly clarified, "I donât mean chemically so, though I do wonder what would happen if he took the X3.âÂ
âWhoâs your roommate now? Is he also in the Blue Suns?â he asked, a little less overcome by emotions now that she had told him that she didnât sell drugs. Weapons had the potential to be dangerous too, but at least it wouldnât straight up make her a criminal to sell them.
Well, this certainly hasnât been a pleasant surprise to come back and be left without a place to stay. When he left to return to the fleet, he did tell her that she could do whatever with the flat. After all, he had packed all of his things and took them with him to the flotilla since he expected to be living there for the next few years if not longer.
Sabiq would have thought that Val would at least search for another roommate first if the rent for the apartment got too much for her alone -- but he realised that it ultimately wouldnât have worked anyway since the Eclipse were after her apparently, which probably wasnât too much fun for her.
But to be fair, it wasnât particularly fun for Sabiq either to walk up to your apartment door, just to be faced by a stranger who immediately assumes that you wanted to break into their home. After thatâs happened, he really didn't know any better than to give Val a call and meet up.
âAlso...,â he added. âYou guys donât happen to have an extra room for a night or two, do you? Or just a couch? Just so long until I find a new place?â