Journey
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 1
And regret it she did ... polite or not. Vee turns into a demanding, insensitive bitch intent on her way or the highway, every time she uses the 'Gift' of the gods. That bunch of gods is not the Powers that Be. The gods have no beginning, no middle and no end.
"So, April ... if I may call you that?" said Vee.
"It's how we were introduced and one polite name is as good as another," agreed the ship, "As long as you be good, I be good."
"Fair enough. Vee works for me."
"You were about to tell me what you want me to do?"
"Adventure. Pure adventure. Ah ... I see you're intrigued."
"Yes," April said. If rubbing ones hands together was a sound instead of an anticipatory motion, April made it. Vee knew instantly.
"I'm looking for compatible planets," Vee said. "What's your range and speed?"
"How far do you want to go and how long do you want it to take?" April asked.
"Another psychiatrist," replied Vee.
"Huh?"
"Answer a question with a question," Vee said.
Suddenly they were inside the ship ... object ... whatever ... Vee was on a white couch and a white coated bespectacled April was seated behind her. Dr. April had a patient chart and was taking notes.
"How do you feel about that?" asked April.
"About what?" Vee asked.
The pair fell into gales of laughter.
"Seriously," April said. "I have this Universe and thousands of Sequential and Parallel Universes at my command ... and if you don't like this one we can travel to the next."
"Next Universe?"
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