[h2]Pilots’ Group Chat[/h2][quote][color=fff200][b]Paul[/b][/color] @Bea Wow Bea! I had no idea you were so sensitive about your height! I honestly didn’t notice. You have so much personality you always seemed taller than Han[/quote]
[color=fff200][b]Bea[/b][/color] [b]@Paul[/b] Wow, calling me short AND loud in one sentence… 😛

[color=fff200][b]Bea[/b][/color] I’m not short, I’m *compact*. It’s good for racing. Not so much for getting the winter coat off the top of the wardrobe.

[color=fff200][b]Bea[/b][/color] And I had to get loud so people would stop tripping over me.

[hr][center][h2]Saturday November 6th, 2094, 18:40
Bonneville Salt Flats, FSA[/h2][h3]Qualifying[/h3][/center]The Carrera Condor ship felt alive in ways it hadn’t before, even Marmolada only approaching the level of sheer, mind-melting speed it was achieving.

[color=#1EFF24]”Ahh! Bloody wind gust in that kink at the start.”[/color] Bea cursed as she crossed the timing line at Mach fuck, having had an avoidable moment early in the lap and spending the rest of it catching up. She almost did. [color=#1EFF24]”So close.”[/color]
[color=#129914]”Long day tomorrow, we have time.”[/color]
[color=#1EFF24]”You can actually hear the wind rushing past the ship on the main straight. Don’t go fast enough to hear that every day.”[/color]
[color=#129914]”Finally fast enough for you?”[/color]
[color=#1EFF24]”Not even close. Ava still P1?”[/color]
[color=#129914]”Projected to stay.”[/color]
[color=#1EFF24]”Good, someone lit a fire behind her arse.”[/color] Bea laughed, [color=#1EFF24]”And Zygon?”[/color]
[color=#129914]”In the dust.”[/color]

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Bea was coming in for the interview just as Ava was coming out.[color=#1EFF24]”Good job.”[/color] She clapped the taller pilot on the shoulder as they passed each other, having learned to time it with their steps to spare herself reaching a few centimeters months ago.

[quote]Bea, P3 today in Qualifying, and Carrera are looking like the team to beat. How are you going to manage figh-[/quote]
[color=#1EFF24]”Better than bloody Argentina.”[/color] Bea cut Aurora off immediately, [color=#1EFF24]”We’ve learned, we’re not utter idiots. I think. And if I can’t catch up to Nora and Ava,”[/color] She grinned, a challenge in her voice. [color=#1EFF24]”Then maybe I finally get that duel with Kais Jamie so rudely interrupted in Cape Town.”[/color]

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[center][b]Xinny @Xinny[/b]: 
[i]"Hey, [b]@MadBea[/b], I know you hate the heat and Utah is scorching hot, so I think I found a solution for you!”
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[b]GlennFS:[/b] Blud woke up and chose violence.
[b]MadBea:[/b] Absolutely not, you deplorable degenerate. Bad Rich, go take a long cold shower! 😀
	[b]MadBea:[/b] And before anyone gets their panties in a twist, we are friends. This is fine between friends.
		[b]GalwayGirl:[/b] You need better friends. I only ever send you sweet pastries. 😛
		[b]Ping>9000:[/b] She really just said “No ❤️”
[b]CloroxEnjoyer:[/b] Alternative solution: giant parasol over the entire Salt Flats. FIAR, make it happen.
	[b]TruckerTim:[/b] It’s like that joke “There will only be three pubs in the world, in places with rich history related to alcohol: One in Belgium, one in Czech Republic and we’ll put a roof over Russia.”
[b]Zero:[/b] “Bad Rich” implies this is not his first offense.
	[b]MadBea:[/b] Nope, him being a mental flashbang is something I've grown used to. This is just the first time he went in this direction. 😀
[b]Hotstuff:[/b] we need a compilation of whatever this man has sent her over the years
	[b]MadBea:[/b] Well, we both live in London... That does sound like a stream idea, doesn't it?
		[b]GalwayGirl:[/b] “6 years of cursed DMs” special event
			[b]MadBea:[/b] Just two. That’s all he needed for that descriptor.
				[b]Xinny:[/b] Never have I been more offended by something I agree so wholeheartedly with.

[hr][center][h2]Saturday November 6th, 2094, 21:04
Bonneville Salt Flats, FSA[/h2][/center]Bea was among the fans once again. That had not changed. What has changed was that she was hiding. She’d seen the costumes the other pilots had been wearing, so when she caught wind that Flávia was looking for her along with the make-up artist from her team, she put her phone on silent and disappeared among the festival goers, intending to justify it as ‘fan outreach’ and having ‘lost track of time.’

She found herself behind one of the music stages currently hosting a band with so much bass the MAG tracking was shaking, sitting in a circle of around seven people. A woman with black and white patterns painted on her face, wiphala bands around her arms and wearing enough Carrera Condor merch to be mistaken for a billboard had brought skin safe markers and the discussion had spiraled into an impromptu session of Bea drawing things on arms and cheeks at the fans’ request while chatting casually.
“Have you seen the latest controversy Mulder got himself into?” Someone asked.
[color=#1EFF24]”Yesh.”[/color] Bea nodded with a marker between her teeth. [color=#1EFF24]”Looksh like Victory Lapsh Racing Newsh ishn’t an absholute cesshpit.”[/color] She shrugged.
“You read gossip media?”
[color=#1EFF24]”I don’t think anyone [i]readsh[/i] gosship ragsh purposhefully,”[/color] She shook her head, taking the marker. [color=#1EFF24]”Rather, they shove themselves in your face with the subtlety and grace of a facehugger. And then morbid curiosity does the rest.”[/color]
“So you don’t think there’s anything to it at all?”
[color=#1EFF24]”Mate, if Paul slept with everyone he met one-on-one, that would, by my count, include Han, me, Kais and now Trix. And maybe I’m missing someone, I don’t know. Unlike culture vultures, I try to stay out of people’s lives and just absorb them by involuntary osmosis.”[/color]
“Ummm… About that.” The painted fan pulled out her phone and, after a quick search of something, handed it to Bea.

[hr][h2]Pilots’ Group Chat[/h2]
[color=fff200][b]Bea[/b][/color] [b]@Paul[/b] I had to see this after a fan showed it to me, and now so do you. 😀 [Link to awful harem fic about Paul]

[color=fff200][b]Bea[/b][/color] And yes, I checked chapter publication dates, they keep adding new ones, this madness is ongoing. 😂

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[center][url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TrLdbYUu7LJQf9_6F1zblN3WfwvCU8R3W8Xskd8b3vI/edit?usp=sharing]Carrera Condor NPCs[/url][/center]