Joan sat in a folding chair on a dock in the EDZ, a fishing pole loosely held in her right hand. She glanced to her forearm, and a holographic display formed over her arm, displaying the time; 1 in the afternoon. She leaned her head back with a sigh. As she tilted her head back, however, her eyes were laid on her glaive, and she raised a brow in thought. Joan would reel in the empty line, grab a handful of bait in her left hand and set down the pole, grabbing the glaive with her right.
She stood from her chair and walked to the edge of the dock, throwing in the handful of the bait and leveling the glaive at the water. She stared at the still water, looking around a moment when she spotted a trout swimming over. She waited until the fish was directly in the cloud of bait, then thrust the glaive down into the fish, spearing it.
Pulling the fish up, she chuckled quietly and set it in the cooler left next to her seat. She repeated this again and again, catching a total of four fish before she reared the polearm back and chucked it into the water, spearing a Kheprian Axehead as she used Strand to pull the glaive back to her.
When she reeled the blade back to her, she stared at her hand, the Weave still swaying around her arm. A smirk steadily grew on her faceplate, and she put away the fish at the same time she used the display on her arm to bring her ship down from orbit.
As her ship came down to hover over the pond, she outstretched her arms to the ship and caused Strand to coil around the fuselage, dangling down until it reached the lake, the threads joining together under the water in the form of a mesh net on the riverbed.
With Strand still brimming around her hands to maintain the net, she walked over to her chair and picked up the bucket holding her bait, tossing it all into the middle of the pond. After a moment of waiting and watching the fish swarm, she threw her hands upwards and the net constricted, pulling a multitude of fish from the water.
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She laughed as the water drained away from between the fish, grappling herself up to the ship and climbing inside as it raised in altitude and began a long flight to the Last City.
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Destiny shorts; Revenant Edition
Science FictionThis is an ongoing project of me cataloging shorts of Evelyn, my Destiny character. Chapters will be marked as SFW or NSFW, that will be your only warning. I'm gonna try and record these in order of creation, but no promises.
