“Ugh. Rain.”
Psiksi pouted as he watched some sort of blue-green liquid run down the window. The four beings, one Vrekan, one Rethan, one Skyan and one Kronospast in the shape of a Rethan, had been sitting in the ship for an hour, waiting for… something. Psiksi couldn’t quite remember what.
“Is it reaaaaally rain though?” Elksia asked, breaking up Psiksi’s monotony. She was prancing around as she carried a bag of stuff around. “I thought rain hadta be water or somethin?”
“It’s liquid falling from the sky. It’s rain…” Psiksi tutted. “It’s also why we’re stuck in here.”
“Because it’s all kinda wet?”
Psiksi glanced at Elksia, then left the window, deciding that he should probably go and check his gear. “Uh, no, because this is an alien world and that might be acid rain?”
“It was normal rain the last time we were here.”
“Yeah, the last time we were here, we fought a pissed off death god on somewhat normal terrain. Out there now… the landscape just shifts and changes…”
Elksia shrugged as she held up some sort of strange suit. “Ohs. It looks cool as feck though! Is this why they gived us these special clothes to wear?”
The suit was clearly a shiny, stretchy one, made to cover all the bumps and lumps on Elksia’s body, without her natural armour, feathers and sharp parts tearing through it. Special compartments covered the wrist and upper arm areas, designed to contain Elksia’s Vrekan wrist blades. Psiksi rummaged through the gear that Tenuk and Retvik had given him, only to find that he had a similar suit, just in white and yellow rather than green and silver. And designed for a Skyan like himself.
“Shiny!” Elksia giggled as she slipped into the suit, not caring that Psiksi could see pretty much everything. “You shoulda put yours on too. Gonna haveta before we go out there.”
Psiksi hesitated, then started putting his own suit on, slipping it over his natural armour plating. He somewhat expected his claws to go straight through the material, but the suit was clearly tougher than he expected.
“What’s takin’ so long anyway?” Elksia tutted as she rushed over to the window, trying to see if there was anything past the rain. “Like, we didn’t take this long last time! You know how Arky is now?”
“Pardon?” Psiksi asked. He never quite got how Vrekans so quickly changed the subject.
“Do you know how Arky is?”
“Uh, no.”
Elksia tutted again. “Why?”
“The last time I saw Arkadin was the last time you saw Arkadin.”
“I thought he visited you in bed or somethin’, like a boyfriend maybe.”
Psiksi grunted. “No, I have a partner, I would not appreciate the Thantophor sneaking into bed with me.”
Elksia grinned. “I would.”
“Well, you do you, Elksia…” Psiksi sighed again, then headed over to the window where Elksia was. “Still, you have a point. What IS taking those two so long? I thought this magic ship of Tenuk’s was… faster than this?”
The bouncy Vrekan shrugged, then looked out the window some more. Psiksi was sure that Elksia was looking at something in particular but couldn’t quite tell what it was. Before he could ask though, a voice screeched through the intercom.
“Elksia, Psiksi, you two suited up yet?”
Elksia leaped up and rushed straight for the little communication terminal by the door. “Yesss! Are we goin’ now?”
“Not yet. I’m gonna need you two both up here. You need to see this…”
Tenuk’s voice fizzled out. Elksia glanced at Psiksi, then grabbed him by the hand, immediately dragging him out of the room and towards the main deck.