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Nick was standing next to the doors of the main guest hall, ticking off the people on the list as they entered. The guest hall was dry, which made a nice change as it meant he didn’t have to wear a dry suit. Instead the Collector was hovering behind a giant glass screen at the back of the room, watching the proceedings. His translucent body was glowing in the darkness, and casting a pale blue light through the glass and onto the gathering audience. They were all awaiting his opening speech, but none of them more so than Nick. Nick could’ve cut the atmosphere in this room with a spoon. It was as thick as yoghurt. He just hoped he’d be able to help pick up the pieces. Interlude 6: The black space pod sliced through the atmosphere and the liquid machinery diffused into the water of the oceans when it landed. The creature within changed shape, assuming new physical qualities and then swam down towards the zoo. Nick was kind of shocked when the beautiful woman in the nineteenth century dress wandered through the doors. She was strikingly attractive, and the only thing that made her look not human was the fact her eyes were pure white, like milk. If he didn’t know better he would’ve sworn she was human, which would rather have buggered up him and Alf being in the exhibits. Which would be rather funny, but also rather interesting. He nearly fell over when the Collector entered his mind. The jellyfish had learned to “speak” to him without “shouting,” but Nick still wasn’t used to it. ° Nick? ° ° Ys? ° ° You might want to go to the medical bay - there have been some… complications. ° Nick ran to the medical bay. Interlude 7: The creature from the black space pod arrived at the zoo. Being the galaxy’s greatest Bounty Hunter, it had a good idea of how to get past the security systems. It altered its physical structure to slip through the defences, and then, when it was inside the zoo’s structure, assumed a more snake like aspect, to better move through the infrastructure to its target. It reached out its biodata senses through the field and found the nearest creature, and then slithered towards it.
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