******** In the Hallway: Lite is walking down the hallway looking slightly confused. Finally he shrugs and looks up. Lite: Computer? Pandora: Here I am, Lite. But my name is Pandora. How would you like it if I called you Hidden Valley Rancher Kid? Lite: (muttering) Better than if you called me Lite! Pandora: Fine. Bloocheez Junior, my name is Pandora. It's a pleasure to meet you. Lite rolls his eyes. Lite: Pandora, tell me how to get to Commander yaz-pistashio's quarters. Pandora (lighting a trail) Just follow the purple light. But I wouldn't disturb him right now. He's in the middle of a tricky 3-D puzzle and he won't want to be disturbed. Lite: Does he have his gravity off? Pandora: Well of course. How else could he get the puzzle pieces to stay in place before it's done? Lite (setting off after the guide light) Thanks. ******** yaz's quarters yaz is floating in the middle of the room with a big three dimensional puzzle surrounding him. It has the appearance of a partially filled in sphere. In fact, from the parts that are complete, it looks amazingly like the top several layers of the earth. yaz has the remaining puzzle pieces in a clump in front of him, and he is holding a greenish blue piece and talking to himself. yaz: Now where does this piece go? The top land pieces are easy, with their country markers, but this greenish blue... It could be an ocean piece with algae under it, or it could one of the metal layers lower down. Hmm. At this rate it'll take me months to finish this puzzle. But it'll be beautiful when it's done. The doorbell chimes **ding** yaz: Come. The door opens and Lite steps through. The force of his first step in the no gravity room throws him towards the ceiling and he grabs hold of the light fixture. Lite: WHEEE! yaz looks up from his position in the middle of the puzzle. He has to move slowly so as not to throw himself through the puzzle (there is an opening at the top to get in and out, but the rest of the puzzle is only partially completed and a kick would completely mess up the pieces). yaz: Watch out! Don't touch the puzzle! Lite: (pushing off from the ceiling towards yaz) What puzzle? Oh, those floating things? I've never seen a puzzle like this before. His push from the ceiling was soft, so that he is not going very fast, but he is, unfortunately, floating in the direction of the puzzle. yaz sees this and opens his mouth to scream, then winces and holds out his hands to protect himself from Lite's impact. Lite: (as he pushes through one side of the puzzle, scattering pieces in his wake) Oh, this puzzle. Oops. His flight continues as he crashes into yaz. The added momentum pushes both Lite and yaz through the other side of the puzzle. The pieces are now scattered all over the room and moving in different directions. Almost none of them are floating in place. Lite and yaz crash into the floor and would have bounced back except that yaz manages to grab both the floor and Lite. He looks around at the wreckage of his puzzle, and his sorrow is replaced by anger. yaz: How did you get loose? And why are you here?!!!! What the HECK did you think you were doing? Lite: I'm Lite, I mean, I'm Bloocheez Lite, nephew and heir to Bloocheez! I was talking to the guy with the gravity cube but he refused to turn off the gravity for me to play with and finally he told me to come here cuz you had no gravity. yaz: Great. I wonder what Metag was thinking when he sent you here. In any case, Mister Lite, you are in big trouble now. Lite squirms out of yaz's grip and gives a big kick off the floor. Unfortunately, at this location, the floor is the same as yaz's gut. yaz: ULP! Lite: WHEEEEEEE! Lite caroms off the walls and ceiling while yaz moans on the floor. On the rebound he knocks a flailing arm into a glass figurine which was sitting in a cubby, but unfortunately, not far enough into the cubby. The sight of his precious figurine bouncing off the walls is enough to move yaz despite his aching gut. He pulls himself up and catches the figurine. Just then Lite bounces again and hits yaz's arm, throwing the figurine off again into a wall where one of its fingers gets chipped off. yaz is steaming now; he grabs Lite's collar with one hand, and the figurine with the other. He straightens himself a bit and calls out. yaz: Gravity on! yaz replaces the figurine in the cubby and turns his attention on Lite, shaking slightly in his fury. Lite: Why'd you turn on the gravity? I already said I was sorry for wrecking your puzzle. Geez, what's the big deal. Turn the gravity back off so I can play. yaz: (carefully trying to restrain his anger) Lite, you are going to go to the library and read a good book or something until Jiapa gets you. More importantly, you are LEAVING my room. Pandora, show him the way to the library. Door, open. The door slides open and yaz, still holding Lite by his collar and belt loop, frogmarches Lite to the door and throws him outside. yaz (ic): Jiapa, your HVR brat, Lite, came by here and trashed my puzzle. I've sent him to the library, so go get him. And don't let me see him again. ********
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