Whoo Hoo! Next chapter! A few things I did notice, however.....
On 8 Oct 99, at 20:54, Rhea Seraph wrote:
"I believe we need to first reliably establish that
we can actually use the EVA units in the next operation
before we make a final decision," Fuyuutsuki now said.
"Many natural caverns are far too large for the EVA units.
Shouldn't this last line read "far too small"?
Misato sighed. "What if Orifel decides to erupt up
in the middle of Oklahoma City? At least this way, no
civilians will be at risk. I hate to put my...to put Shinji
and Asuka at risk, but we have no choice. We're all
soldiers here, and soldiers have to risk their lives. My
only regret is that I can't go with them." She fingered her
necklace, letting the familiar routine of running her
fingers along the odd angles and smooth curves of its star
like pendant.
Last sentence kinda sputtered out. "letting the familiar....of its
star like pendant" do what?
"They just don't know her!"
"No animals will get close to her," continued
Shinji. "Remember the time that snake got into our room in
Continued Asuka, if I was following the conversation correctly.
[snip]
"Rei... what are we?"
Rei merely replied, "The Children."
Damn. This is getting creepy.
I like it ^_^
In all his dreams and plans, Gendo had never once imagined his
duties as commander of NERV would involve giving romantic advice to a
repressed teenage girl. It had been decades since he had been a teenage
boy, let alone a teenage girl. And knowing what Rei was, he wasn't sure
After reading that a few times, I just can't get the image of Gendo
as a teenaged girl about to undergo a sex change out of my head.
Blech.
The light was dim and red, shining down from the ceiling high
above them, but somehow it sustained a dense forest of archaic
plants, some of them not seen in the world above for millions of
years. Asuka simply stared at it blankly for a few minutes. What's a
bleeding JUNGLE doing down underground? she asked herself. The air was
unnaturally warm.
A bleeding Jungle? Asuka's picked up a British accent?
Then a unicorn ran by in the forest, or to be more precise, a
purple and silver zebra with a single ivory horn. A saber-toothed
tiger was chasing it, gradually losing ground. The creatures ran out of
sight, and Asuka finally spoke. //"Is this some kind of joke? This is
some kind of crazy simulation, right?"//
Nope, it's the mascot for Fruit-Stripe chewing gum.
//"We can play nature boys and girls later,"// Misato cut in.
//"We have to stop Orifel now before he gets it in his mind to head
for the surface."//
//"Right." Asuka said, and took the lead, crashing through the
forest and clearing a path for the others.
Forgot the "//" after Asuka's comment.
//"If our readings are correct, Orifel is waiting for you inside
the pentagon,"// Misato said.
Being a military man myself, that just brigns to mind some humorous
comments about my superiors ^_^
//"Check,"// Asuka said. //"Everyone ready to kick ass?"//
//"No, but I won't get more ready by waiting,"/ Shinji said.
Missing a "/" there....
//"So where's Orifel?"// Asuka asked.
//"He's the statue,"// Ritsuko announced.
The statue's eyes opened. "I SUPPOSE THAT TRICK HAD TO FAIL
SOONER OR LATER."
0.0
Misato turned to Fuu, who had taken Shigeru's old job. She was
blonde with glasses, short and slender, wearing a silver ring of a
dragon swallowing its tail. "What's happened to communications?"
"He's jamming it somehow. I'll try boosting our signal, but
since the Children can't boost theirs very much, we may end up with
only a one-way line."
"That's not good enough!" Misato brought her hand down on the
armrest of her chair, then regretted it, since that hurt. "I can't help
them if I don't know what is going on!"
"Maybe we should have waited for him to come to the surface,
then," Fuu replied, going to work trying to strengthen the signal.
Maybe she should just summon Windam and kick some ass herself ^_^
Excellent. Can't wait for the next one. More importantly, I can't
wait to see what Rei thinks of the movie Misato's going to show her
^_^
Derek