[b]Alexa![/b]

"Wow!" said Ceberus. "You're a -" "- rayyy~ -" "- of! -" "- sunshine!"

You didn't even notice the Hound of Hell amidst the neon and the chrome. She looks like she might fit onto any of those screens; perfect shampoo'd fur, happy pink tongues comical round black eyebrows. Robotic eyes swirl and whirr and already one of her is sniffing Rusty who is mechanically sniffing her in return. There are at least three of her - individual bodies, but with a singular guiding intellect. You get the sense that there are far more besides. Perhaps all of those hound statues throughout the station - some tall and menacing, some clouds with faces - are part of her.

The heads hand off to each other mid sentence freely, each animated with an entirely different personality. One is bright and eager and in a rush to keep talking, one speaks in short, military barks, and one in a dark and miserable sigh. Their voices have a fascinating harmonic chorus, sometimes speaking in perfect sync but in different keys, sometimes speaking in unison throughout a sentence only to drop out or switch over to emphasize different words.

"Look at you, glaring spit at everything you see," said Cerberus. "Walking around like -" One of the dog-machines made a snarling face and stomped around in a circle. "Who are you to go judging? Was your age really so much better?"

[b]Dolce![/b]

When you next come by your rooms, they are empty. All your furniture, all your clothes, all your gear has been neatly packed up into boxes and carried away. There is a note: [i]This is still a mutiny[/i].

You find Jil on the cargo dock of the Tunguska, along with all your worldly possessions in a neat pile. She is viciously negotiating with some sort of machine intelligence stone statue, carved to look tenuously like a dog. Everywhere above you are lights, lights, lights. Everywhere around you are the crushing whirl of movement that comes with loading and unloading a ship this size. When she sees you, she raises a finger to the machine hound and gestures a pair of Alcedi warriors to fall in behind her.

"Don't make this difficult," she said. "You're staying behind."