Meanwhile, Una finished her latest cigarette and stepped back onto the transporter pad.
She'd had time now to feel a little guilty about what she'd just done. There was always the chance that something might go terribly wrong and Belloq would get killed—even if the warriors of that age had plenty on their minds without having to pay attention to him. As well, the more she thought about it, the more this gesture seemed ... a bit childish. It was the metatemporal equivalent of hanging someone off a high ledge by their ankles to frighten them.
Still, it *had* cheered her up a bit. And hopefully underlined to Belloq just how dangerous she actually was, which was much of the point.
She touched the controls and in a glimmer of light, she reappeared at the edge of the hollow. She stared down at Belloq, at what he'd done to himself—and she was soldier enough to understand—and sighed.
"Come on, you fool," she said, extending her hand. "I'm not a nice person, but I'm not as cruel as all that."
Chaos was surging up toward them now, a mass of seething creatures that were not quite men, not quite beasts. As soon as Belloq took her hand, she would activate the transporter recall and return them to Quadratus.
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She'd had time now to feel a little guilty about what she'd just done. There was always the chance that something might go terribly wrong and Belloq would get killed—even if the warriors of that age had plenty on their minds without having to pay attention to him. As well, the more she thought about it, the more this gesture seemed ... a bit childish. It was the metatemporal equivalent of hanging someone off a high ledge by their ankles to frighten them.
Still, it *had* cheered her up a bit. And hopefully underlined to Belloq just how dangerous she actually was, which was much of the point.
She touched the controls and in a glimmer of light, she reappeared at the edge of the hollow. She stared down at Belloq, at what he'd done to himself—and she was soldier enough to understand—and sighed.
"Come on, you fool," she said, extending her hand. "I'm not a nice person, but I'm not as cruel as all that."
Chaos was surging up toward them now, a mass of seething creatures that were not quite men, not quite beasts. As soon as Belloq took her hand, she would activate the transporter recall and return them to Quadratus.