[Exercising considerable discretion, Ari elects not to ask about the whip. Some questions really have no good possible answers.]
It's a Tradeline standard energy pistol. Lucky I always carry a few spare power cells. It's got a dial with settings ranging from stun all the way up to melt. I'm a good shot. [She has to be. Ari's a relatively small woman, and she's not trained in hand-to-hand combat. If there's a fight, she goes for the gun, and she doesn't hesitate. It's a great equaliser that way.
She's noticed that he seems to have a variety of weapons with him.] What do you prefer? A katana, or a gun?
[It takes her aback somewhat when he laughs at the idea of the pirates being a threat. Was that arrogance, that he didn't think they could hurt him, or were they really as inept as he was suggesting? Ari wasn't sure if it was sensible to take the risk. Although the idea of fighting pirates every day and having the losers come back the next morning to fight again was its own sort of timeloop horror.]
I'm a lieutenant of the Tradelines. Tradeliners and pirates aren't exactly on friendly terms. My ship has blown a fair few pirate ships to pieces, because if we hadn't, they'd have slaughtered us all and taken our cargo. [She knows, on some level, that the people he's talking about likely aren't space pirates from her sector - but even so, she can't see them as anything but a threat.]
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It's a Tradeline standard energy pistol. Lucky I always carry a few spare power cells. It's got a dial with settings ranging from stun all the way up to melt. I'm a good shot. [She has to be. Ari's a relatively small woman, and she's not trained in hand-to-hand combat. If there's a fight, she goes for the gun, and she doesn't hesitate. It's a great equaliser that way.
She's noticed that he seems to have a variety of weapons with him.] What do you prefer? A katana, or a gun?
[It takes her aback somewhat when he laughs at the idea of the pirates being a threat. Was that arrogance, that he didn't think they could hurt him, or were they really as inept as he was suggesting? Ari wasn't sure if it was sensible to take the risk. Although the idea of fighting pirates every day and having the losers come back the next morning to fight again was its own sort of timeloop horror.]
I'm a lieutenant of the Tradelines. Tradeliners and pirates aren't exactly on friendly terms. My ship has blown a fair few pirate ships to pieces, because if we hadn't, they'd have slaughtered us all and taken our cargo. [She knows, on some level, that the people he's talking about likely aren't space pirates from her sector - but even so, she can't see them as anything but a threat.]