Standing in the back of the truck, atop one of the canisters she had taken the liberty of adoping as a new perch as Mr. Smith's footing became uncertain, Aihara Naoko examined the rather solid looking door that she had come through with the sales representative - the door that the sales representative had shut, when he had left. She considered the metal deeply, as if by staring at it, it would somehow change. But in her peripheral, she was watching a playback of the recent conversation, over and over again, and considering the implications - attempting to make a guess at the character of the sales representative.
Don't pretend to be my friend, you're certainly...
literally all the hemosynthetic material...
Her gaze wandered to the chest that Mr. Smith had locked, and she refocused. Taking her time, Naoko gently padded, barefoot, down off of the shelves and onto the particular trunk that the sales representative had taken the half-pint of Hemosynthetic fluid out of. She stood atop it, considering her next course of action.
On the one hand, having been in planetary infantry for a few years, and then working from a drop-ship training to fight Nepleslians, Naoko was aware that basic metalurgy hadn't changed much from when it was created. Which meant that, essentially, a lock was only as good as its structural integrity, and if it did have a keyhole in the back for the forgetful, an analog lock was nothing to somebody whose hands were small enough.
On the other hand, there was the potential accusation of theft to worry about. Four pints of hemosynthetic could be worth a great deal of money to the right people - Naoko being one of them. Four pints of the material down was four pints she wouldn't have to produce, herself. But if she were to be arrested, or if a warrent were to be issued for her arrest, that would make her a person. Currently, Naoko enjoyed autonomy as a non-entity - an illegal weapon, gone rogue. If someone knew about her, or if she were to make headline news...
Don't pretend to be my friend, you're certainly...
literally all the hemosynthetic material...
Her gaze wandered to the chest that Mr. Smith had locked, and she refocused. Taking her time, Naoko gently padded, barefoot, down off of the shelves and onto the particular trunk that the sales representative had taken the half-pint of Hemosynthetic fluid out of. She stood atop it, considering her next course of action.
On the one hand, having been in planetary infantry for a few years, and then working from a drop-ship training to fight Nepleslians, Naoko was aware that basic metalurgy hadn't changed much from when it was created. Which meant that, essentially, a lock was only as good as its structural integrity, and if it did have a keyhole in the back for the forgetful, an analog lock was nothing to somebody whose hands were small enough.
On the other hand, there was the potential accusation of theft to worry about. Four pints of hemosynthetic could be worth a great deal of money to the right people - Naoko being one of them. Four pints of the material down was four pints she wouldn't have to produce, herself. But if she were to be arrested, or if a warrent were to be issued for her arrest, that would make her a person. Currently, Naoko enjoyed autonomy as a non-entity - an illegal weapon, gone rogue. If someone knew about her, or if she were to make headline news...