Red Red Whine

As I explained yesterday, today I am participating in Choose Your Own Blogventure. If you’d like to read this story from the beginning and see if your choices take you to my portion of the story, click here. (please note, the story will not begin until 10:00 a.m. EST, but I’m posting my portion a teensy bit early so that I can go back to bed with my stuffy 400-pound head since I’m home sick today).

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Xinni weighed her options. If she didn’t trust Boone and use his crazy whirring/glowing orb to send her message to Jax in Dunan – what else could she do? Not much else, she thought to herself, short of trudging along this stupid trail and trying to get to Dunan so I can…oh no! Xinni realized that she had absolutely no recollection of why she was trying so hard to communicate to Jax!

Concealing her panic, she decided to send a message to Jax anyway.

Boone gave Xinni a quick tutorial in orb-mail and then discreetly stepped away to give her some privacy. While he waited, he couldn’t help noticing the soft curl of her hair that framed her cheekbones just so, and the beautiful hue of her eyes. It had been a long time since he’d enjoyed the company of a woman…

Xinni was completely oblivious to Boone’s ogling as she orb-mailed Jax the following:

My dear, sweet Jax: I seem to be suffering from some form of amnesia, probably as a result of the injuries I incurred while fighting a Sea Scorpion in the Cosmica Rift. All I can remember is that I was supposed to be sending you a message, and that I love you. Please forgive me for letting you down. I am so ashamed, and I can see no redemption.

As she entered the beginning of her message into the orb, Xinni began to cry.

“Xinni, hon, are you okay?” Boone asked. He pulled Xinni into a hug to comfort her. “Listen, y’all, I don’t know what has made you so unhappy but I do know this: you are one hot warrior princess, and I want to be your prince. I know I’m a little odd-looking with my disproportionate upper-half and 10-gallon hat, but I know we’ll be happy together.”

Xinni looked at Boone in disbelief. Was he kidding? Was he actually putting the moves on her?

If you think Xinni should start a love affair with Boone despite his penchant for cowboy attire and perhaps see if he could re-charge her bolter with one of the many gadgets stowed in his pack, click here.

If you think Xinni should kick Boone in the shins, make off with his orb, and continue on to Dunan to find Jax and try to regain her memory, click here.

Or, if you’d like to return to the previous part of the story and make a different choice, click here.

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