"Nezekiri, to the bridge. It is time to do the... thing..." Anibeli's voice says. And, I must say, she sounds positively ecstatic at this turn of events. That can only mean one thing...

  "My dearest friend, is it truly time? Will you stop delaying and head to-"

  "Yes yes, Nez. No need to rub it in. It's time to meet... my future husband..." She says, then immediately retches audibly.

  I chuckle, and drop the still bloody skull. It's flesh was in a corner, and the rest of the bones in another corner. The organs were long gone, disintegrated. They were such a strange mutation.

  Normally I don't do things like this. I like expedient death, usually involving brain death and or disintegration. But these things are so... odd. But, I digress.

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  I hop into a portal, and I can't help but chuckle darkly. Whatever happens, I know what I will do. After all, we don't need the spouse if we already have what we want. Now, it's only a matter of time...

  "We have arived in system, Captain. No near contacts."

  "Half speed inwards to the system station. Why they picked here of all places though..." Anibeli said, finishing with a muttered remark.

  I poke her, and she turns, and narrows sher eyes. "Something to add, dear friend?"

  If I could smile innocently, I would have the face of a cherub. So, I may have been incessantly poking fun at her fate, and she may have shot me with a las pistol last time. I glance at her hand- yep, on a las pistol. Hmmm. Should I? I may have taken it too far-

  "Oh, nothing. I'm simply thinking that it's so very sweet that your riding to your dearest with such vigor! Why, if I had a heart, it would be bea-" I say, then duck as she tries to punch me with her augmetic arm.

  "Dear, if your husband-to-be were to see you, what would he think?" I ask sweetly.

  I teleport away as Anibeli begins to mutter curses and threats, all relating to me. Ah, to be so loved. We would be there soon, and then these two scions would meet. Will it end in bloodshed? A duel? Unrequited romance?!?!

  None of those things, probably. But, an assassin can wish. For a reason to kill him, mind, but an assassin CAN wish...