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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're too close to the nest to stay long anyway. Anyone got eyes on a blanket?"

Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

She couldn't think of where to search the medbay for something to fix him because [nothing] in the medbay [could,] in the long term. The biofoam held back a tide that would burst from the hole in his chest to pull him under, in time. "There should be doctors somewhere in a colony, right?

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Hologram came on, and... and I think we need the escape pods. You need more help than we've got in this room." As the immediate danger passes and they aren't desperately holding him together, it's a little easier to think, to breathe, to speak.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Never made it into the room, but probably did a lot of damage to the ship. Haven't swept to see if it was alone yet. No one else is hurt." The last part isn't strictly true, but she hasn't yet registered the cuts and minor impalements where glass and metal collided with cloth and skin.

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starfairy @quotes.sunder.my · 17/08/2026

Going non-verbal because I've angered the gods.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nothin' – I don't think you need it.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You thought about upgrading to a- never mind.

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starfairy @quotes.sunder.my · 26/07/2026

The monsters begin their crawl from hell's cracked ceiling.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Hey – we're here, we're safe. It's okay. You're okay, Cara?"

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Yeah, think so. Have to do a real sweep, and plan a way out before–" Sudden movement and Valerie's call give her that last piece of relief her heart needed. She holsters Tirum's gun and finds her way back to the others, close to Cara's side and a hand carefully placed on his.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As everything finally falls still and silent, she holds her position, listening, waiting to see what the sounds of the scuffle might have attracted. She hears nothing but the voices and harried breaths of those in this dark room; even the ship and its system were still.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

||will hit that reply tomorrow, too tired to Lorelei Emotionally

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

||laughing. changed the avatar exactly 55 seconds too late.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I know! It'd be funny at this point, if it weren't life-and-death most of the time. Sure is nice to think about, though...

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You know the answer's always yes. Though we are... incredibly bad at making those plans actually happen.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

before it comes crashing through. Because every shot was a chance it died far from those she cares about, friends new and old.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

But she's ready when the hands emerge and the door cricks and groans. She lifts the gun, aims for the hole [it] made, the opening she drew it into. And she fires, again, again, again through that opening, even if it recoils. Even if her long-suffering survival instinct tells her it's time to dodge,

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

She's of a similar mind. She jerks back when the shrapnel and glass flies, her off arm thrown up over her eyes to protect them as the rest of her body gets riddled with dug-in debris and glancing cuts. It's some twisted sort of luck that the mouth doesn't snap closed on flesh.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ohh, that's different, then. Hey, gorgeous.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Flirting while you're about to get eaten or harvested or some shit ✅

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Think he's gone loopy from pain and bloodloss.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

falling silent only when her hand hovers over it and she raises the gun to its shadowy silhouette, reflecting the dim light in its glossy carapace through the window. [ @aperfectorganism.sunder.my ]

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And again as she strides along the window, thump, thump, thump. It's quieter. But she knows it can hear her. She wants it to hear [her,] to follow the sound of her rage. She keeps the same steady beat as it had, all the way to the release,

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"...We'll figure out the details when we can." As she spoke, she had crossed to the door again, this time on the far end from the emergency release. The threatening beat continues. And now she answers with her own. She swings her fist into the bulkhead with a short shout. Again.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"If they aren't all dead when we get there, we leave and hit the self-destruct." She shrugs off her .50 and hands it off to Valerie. It's unwieldy and kicks like a radstag. Cara certainly couldn't manage it, but if Valerie can't either, maybe one of the settlers could. The lightsaber. Right. Shit.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The threat remained, though, beating out its pattern. It was time to see how it felt about burning anger. "If there's more than one, I'll cover and clear until we get to the escape pods." She takes the railgun from Cara, feeling its weight, checking for catastrophic damage.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So that was the last of the power flickering through, if the hologram was honest. "Hologram doesn't know what's in the halls. Get some folks ready, but we can't move until the path's clear." She saw Tirum's breath rise and fall, uneven as it came. She can set that fear aside now.

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𝓥alerie @universejumping.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

❝I can always reassemble to fit perfectly for you. Or anybody that decides that I'm of use.❞ ┃ #DWRP ━ Valerie Tyler; The Big Bad Wolf; The Doctor's Daughter. ━ Trigger Warning; Adult themes ahead! ━ Writer and muse are 21+, MDNI.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

She stares at Tirum like she could will answers from him if she tried hard enough. He's breathing, at least, and Valerie's focus is impressive. "...Can I try that gun a second, Cara?"

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

but she knows the door's a non-starter. She strides back to the group looking like an animal that's been prodded with sticks through the bars of its cage, ready to bite but locked away from the one tormenting it. "Won't open that. Still have to deal with that thing, though. There's the vents..."

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Shit–" The shift of in the shadows caught the corner of her eye and the warning made her hand snap back from the controls. She looks back to thank Cara and sees the faint red glow of the gun in the dim medbay. So much for that plan. There's not much [she] can glean from the xenomorph's form,

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

||posting my other accounts because I haven't in a while and I'm usually on my fantasy muses these days

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starfairy @quotes.sunder.my · 19/07/2026

Blood will be spilled. I know it. Let it be mine, and not yours.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

But even with the railgun right where @cara.sunder.my might need it, she says a quiet prayer that trouble doesn't find them. She's on her feet now, heading for the door and readying the emergency release.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Then both her hands clasp one of his, careful, but firm enough to feel through the haze, hopefully. "Hey. I love you, and when I get back, we're having a long talk about you going in alone. I'll buy that dinner when this is over, Miss Valerie. I think Cara can still comm me if there's trouble."

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

and busy reloading her rifle as she speaks anyway. Valerie gets a nod, brief but no less grateful. And after, she collects Tirum's halved railgun and places it in Cara's reach. If she knows him as well as she thinks she does, it's still keyed to her fingerprint, child or not.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

But then, she always did her best work with a mad plan and unreasonable amount of faith in herself. "It'll be alright, Cara, he knows he's in good hands. Let me worry about the rest." She wishes she could offer more - a hug, a touch on the shoulder - but her hands are still stained with his blood,

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Tirum can't move, no. Even if they could, where could they take him? This many people crowded into the ship's halls would spell disaster if even one of those things is nearby. There's a plan forming though - impulsive and risky, but she doesn't have time to think of better.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Right. I'm denying the requisition for more fusion cores. Unrelated. Keep it to three or less.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Left that poor woman on the porch in this heat.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know, but I still like asking about your thoughts sometimes.

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Lorelei Gumede @nucleartempest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Not that I'm complaining, but what brought you from antimatter bombs to this?

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