Chronicle of the Unknown Sector. (#Wattys2015)

Part 6: Easing the pain.

Aboard the Abaconda, troops were resting up from their last mission whilst fleet personal saw to the strike cruisers maintenance's and duties. Lady Callandra accompanied by Gabriella and Vera spent their time chit-chatting where as Pablo himself seemed drawn away from all that happened around him, during these times of zoning out his vision would blur and words becoming warped into murs with him breaking out into a cold sweat to the point he was forced into taking a shivering cold shower to just snap him back to reality.

Running his cybernetic hand over through his hair all the way back to where his skull met the spines top and where the two scars ran down his entire back alongside his spine an image of the Ravener beasts flashed in his mind, upon exiting the shower drying himself off then dressing into just a pair of cargo shorts he spent a time sat in silence staring outward at the vast starry space.

Coming upon midnight shipboard time Pablo spent all that time sat on the floor staring at the stars trying hard as he could to focus on things other then his haunting memories, by that time Gabriella entered the room stopping after walking in.

A cheeky grin grew across her face as she began to creep up behind him then tickle the back of his neck with her tail causing him to mimic a crows cry then falling backwards staring directly up at her, upon realizing it was her his face displayed a look of unamusement whilst she grinned with closed eyes letting a quick 'tehe'.

"I guess I've spent enough time in my own void as it is." he uttered with a sigh heaving himself up to his feet, proceeding over to his bunk sitting down on it massaging his left shoulder with his cybernetic hand, Gab shortly after sat down beside him groaning abit rolling her shoulders. "Stiff shoulders?" he asked raising his eyebrow with her simply nodding, placing his hands on her shoulders causing her to jump with her accompanying 'meep' before she began purring slightly as he made way to massage the tightened shoulders, her cat like ears lowering and tail twirling around adding to her purr.

"That feels much better, how do you cope wearing power armour all the time. Makes me feel immobile." Gab spoke softly as Pablo massaged her before adding "And where did you learn to do this?" peering over her shoulder looking at him as he simply peered his gaze at her then focusing back at what he was doing.

"First part is it just became a second skin to me, second part I read alot of books. Anything from medical knowledge, weapons and blueprints to cultural history, novels and such" he answered as he finished massaging her "There, that should of loosened you up" he added after removing his hands laying back on his bunk staring at the ceiling.

"Helps keep my sanity at times" he uttered resting his hands underneath his head, moment later the rooms intercom buzzed notifying Pablo of a training exercise causing him to get up putting on his shirt making his way to the training room with Gab close in tow, sight of the pair was now becoming a regular thing which people took as an overall positive effect to spirits and morale.

The training lesson was standard in format and restricted in size of the ships room, in preparation Pablo had set up a side by side obstacle course. Pablo then demonstrated the course alongside Vera with Gab observing, from mantling, beam-running, rope swinging and wall climbing the troops heaved themselves through, upon the lessons end with troops dismissed and school class who'd taken part in returning to the living quarters of the ship, Vera and Gab began to exit only to turn around to see Pablo still pushing himself through the obstacle's around the room even to the point of jumping into a freezing cold swimming pool fully clothed.

Still tailing him, Gab and Vera ease-dropped an examination as Pablo sat in the med-bay whilst a Doctor cheeked over his vitals, the questions from the Doctor being answered in blunt honestly a sudden sense of shock hit both the observers when they heard Pablo say "I often feel numbness in random parts of my body."