Roxxa ran into the dark broom closet and shut the door behind her, using a broom to block the door.
"That won't hold for long. Need to get out of here before they find us." a voice in her head said.
Roxxa was a smuggler and thief wanted for a number of related charges and has many connections to the Illursian pirate ring, the Earth mafias, and the modular criminal underground. Today however, she is in a research lab on a human colony, and the guards were right on her tail and the alarm blaring in her ears.
Roxxa looked around and spotted her salvation: a vent. She climbed up on the shelves and pried off the cover. She crawled in and squeezed in but got got stuck halfway through.
"I-I can't fit!" a voice said. "The vent's too small."
This was a problem, but one with a very easy solution.
D-don't you dare! the voice said, knowing full well what she was thinking.
Roxxa pulled forward as hard as she could, while her lower half held on to her, trying to keep her from detaching. But eventually, Roxxa's upper and lower halves detached at the waist, her legs and hips falling back into the closet while the rest of her was free to continue climbing through the vent.
After what felt like an hour of crawling, Roxxa found an opening to the outside. She popped out the cover and exited into the rain, on the roof of the facility looking over the city. The thief took a breath.
"I don't really appreciate what you did back there," a new voice said in her head.
"Look, we all knew what we were getting into by taking this job," Roxxa retorted. "Besides, we're out at least. And we still got it, right?"
"Yeah, I have it here."
Roxxa's left arm unzipped her top and reached into her cleavage and pulled out a glass vial with a glowing red liquid.
"Good. Now let's get out of here."
Roxxa stashed the item back in her cleavage, zipped her top up, and began the hand walk back to home.
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