Given my current physical state, I've found myself needing to spend some time away from my responsibilities as Cardinal of Patrex and, frankly, away from the company of other Time Lords, since they could never really understand what I'm going through.
This is why, a few weeks ago, I was traveling in Helios, rather than Bifrost. I find flying non-temporal crafts, such as Helios, to be rather relaxing.
Out of a sense of nostalgia, I found myself in the "commerce centre" of Culculex. That is to say, as
I've mentioned previously in these logs, visiting the event horizon for crime in the known universe.
Wandering through the city with Ziggy, we passed a storage bay which would have been unremarkable save for the clear sound of a plasma drill and the somewhat emphatic attempts of someone trying to negotiate the wielder of said plasma drill to NOT insert it into their brain.
Peeking through the door, I saw a young Zoarean woman tied to a chair being tormented by a couple of rather irate looking enforces from one of the local government gangs. It was apparent they were about to install some form of air conditioning into her skull.
Since I was not in the mood to witness a gangland execution, I sent Ziggy in to distract the local toughs as I snuck in and freed the Zoarean. As is typical in these circumstances, we were spotted as SOON as I'd gotten her untied, so we ran.
During our escape, she insisted we head to her ship, The Little Goat, which I complied with, since it was closer.
The Goat was a mid-sized cargo runabout which she had modified to have a little extra speed boost when needed.
As we hid from out pursuers, I found out a bit more about my erstwhile companion.
Her name was Icie, or, at least that was her nom-de-guerre, She was a cargo hauler, though, more often than not, her cargo was... a bit less than legal. Surprisingly, she was not just AWARE of Time Lords, but had recognized me as one on sight (even through my analgesic mask), which, admittedly, saved me a lot of frustration in regards to the Laws of Time and all that.
After a time of hiding, she brought me back to Helios and passed me a communications device.
I had saved her life, so, she felt, she owed me a life debt. As such, an arrangement was struck. On occasion, she now travels with me in Bifrost and, on other occasions, she will ship or retrieve things for me in her ship.
I suppose that makes her my companion now.
