Christmas Cookies- Karmic Gifts by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-13T07:27:03+00:00

Chapter 4 -- Holiday Spirit

After a few hours of smooth sailing, the ship again shuddered and rolled in its isolated pocket of space. Pax was ready to scream. What in the nine rings of Saturn was the problem?

The Lava Lounge still bore the ravages of the previous night’s Yuletide celebration, or so it seemed upon first glance. But as she waded through the wads of paper, what appeared to be anti-grav holly boughs and the plates of half eaten treats like gingerbread men and plum pudding, she found the pair of Dytclis sitting in a badly constructed sleigh, talking in low but animated tones as they examined an old-fashioned snow globe.

“Gentlemen, I hope you have enjoyed yourselves during this Yuletide holiday,” Pax said, trying to hide a smile.

“Silent Night,” Ziang-Liang admonished. “All is calm, all is bright!”

Quee held the globe out so that Pax could the tiny scene inside. All the snow had settled to the bottom and the Dytclis seemed to prefer it that way. “It Comes Upon a Midnight Clear.”

“It came,” Pax corrected gently. And apparently the holiday had come in a major way for these two. Several brightly decorated boxes still unopened lay beneath the detritus of those they had already enjoyed. Everyone on the ship must have contributed to making their first Yuletide celebration a great success. That alone should have gone a long way to balance out Kismet’s karmic levels.

And yet they were once again lumbering drunkenly through space. Getting Riley and Yanar together had bought her some extra time, but at this rate it would take a cosmic standard year to reach Melee 5… if they got there at all.

Ziang-Liang extracted a miniature crèche from somewhere and set it into Pax’s hand. “What Child is This?”

“It’s Baby Jesus,” Pax replied, her mind on much weightier questions.

The pair frowned, and she realized she’d made a mistake. She scrambled to figure out what she’d done wrong, and the clues slowly sank into her brain one by one. The halls had been decked by boughs of holly. The night was calm, silent and bright. Jingle bells had been attached to the front of the makeshift sleigh. It seemed the Dytclis had taken her advice and looked up old Earth Christmas carols, and then found a way to symbolize them. She had a devilish desire to ask what they did for “Here Comes Santa Claus,” but then she spotted a red suit under one of the lounge tables which bore a few suspicious stains and decided she was better off not knowing.

“Mary’s Child,” Pax said, finally coming up with a song title that would restore their holiday spirit.

They nodded and clicked approvingly. But as much fun -- and thus good karma -- as the Dytclis had generated, the ship still wobbled like a water droplet in zero gravity. She had no doubt after their rather spectacular bout of sex that Riley and Yanar were going to be very happy together. So if they weren’t the problem… and the

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