From: Kandra P. <un...@ar...> - 2009-09-01 08:08:12
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A ship, you can keep it from shooting the Misfit ships?" The Guesser saw what she was driving at. It didn't make much sense yet, but there was a glimmer of something there. "You mean," he said, "that you want to know whether it would be possible for me to partially disable the fire-control system of a spaceship enough to allow it to be captured by Misfit ships?" She nodded rapidly. "Yes ... I think, yes. Can you?" "Ye-e-es," The Guesser said, slowly and cautiously. "I could. But not by just walking in and doing it. I mean, it would be almost impossible to get aboard a ship in the first place, and without an official position I couldn't do anything anyway." But she didn't look disappointed. Instead, she'd smiled a little. "I get us on the ship," she said. "And you have official position. We do it." When she had gone on to explain, The Guesser's mind had boggled |