Wandita

Wandita Setting Description - Outside and Inside

                  Wandita Setting Description –
                       “Outside and Inside”

     Floating slightly above her spaceship Wandita looks down at
it from above. A white yellowish glow surrounds her beautiful
body. Wandita smiles as she looks at her spaceship. She starts
with a five-level circular metal tube with the center of it
filled in. Of course, she can’t see the levels from where she is
at. Wandita can see the filled-in center in the middle of those
levels. As she continues looking at the upper two levels Wandita
floats around it.

     Suddenly, Wandita disappears and a few seconds later she
reappears on the opposite side of it. Looking up what looks like
the same as the top. The only difference is it’s on the bottom
of it. There are a lot more squared bumps sticking out of it.
Wandita begins floating around the outer edges of her spaceship.
She stops when she gets to the back of it. It’s still as smooth as
the rest of that spaceship without any seeable viewports, but
there are four round red circles. These are the exit ports for
the engines that control it. Only no flames ever come out of
them. It’s just the red circles.

     A loud beeping sound wakes Wandita in her sleeping chamber.
Wandita sits up in her sleeper and looks at the entrance to her
chamber. “What is wrong with you now?”

     As Jessica gets off her sleeper the lights suddenly go off.
She almost slips in the darkness. Her hands catch the edge of
her sleeper seconds before she falls. Wandita keeps her left
hand on her sleeper as she gets up. Using her hand Wandita heads
for her entrance into that room. She starts with following her
sleeper to the wall. Then she pats her way down the wall until
she gets to the control frame for her entrance.

     Wandita taps the red button in the center of that frame,
but nothing happens. She pushes it again. Once again, nothing
happens. The third time she punches it. “Whatever is wrong this
time it’s affecting the lights.”

     “I wonder if it’s all over my spaceship? There’s only one
way to find out.” Wandita takes a hand weapon off her side,
points it at the entrance, and fires a single laser ball at it.
The ball just disappears into it.

     After Wandita fires about a hundred laser ball into that
entrance it finally explodes outward into the corridor. It
shatters into several hundred small metal pieces. Those pieces
disappear a few seconds later. Wandita walks into that corridor
and stops. She looks in both directions. “At least the lights
are on in my corridors.”

     Wandita starts walking in the direction the beeping sound
is coming from. The beeping gets louder the closer she gets to
it. Just before she gets there, Wandita puts her hands over her
ears and pushes in on them. Wandita stops at an entrance that
the beeping is coming from. She looks at the words, ‘Food Eating
and Preparation Area,’ above that entrance.

     With her hands still on her ears Wandita walks toward that
entrance. It opens as she approaches it. Suddenly, she stops
again. Wandita sniffs the air above her like a cloud of white of
something floats out of that room. “What is that smell?”

     Crouching under the whiteness Wandita walks into that room.
Wandita straightens after seeing the whiteness near the ceiling
where she can see in several parts of it. She shouts, “Beeping
Off.” A second later the beeping stops.

     Wandita sniffs the air again. She wrinkles her nose and
coughs. “It smells familiar, but I can’t think of what it is.
Wandita looks over at the entrances. She follows the whiteness
emitting through it, to its beginning: the entrance into her
Food Preparation.

     Continuing to sniff the strange smell with disdain on her
face, Wandita walks into her Food Preparation. Wandita stops her
sniffing and begins coughing again. Only she can’t control it
this time. The whiteness in that room is almost everywhere.
After about a minute of uncontrollable coughing Wandita says,
“Clear this room.”

     A few seconds later the whiteness disappears. Wandita looks
into the eating area. The whiteness appears to be gone from
their too. At least it looks like it is from where she is at.
Wandita returns her gaze at the room she is in. With her mouth
open, her eyes bug out, and her eyebrows raised Wandita slowly
scans that filthy room. It’s a disaster. Small pieces of food
are everywhere: on the floors, walls, and ceiling.

     Wandita finishes her scan at a wall length large machine at
the back of that room. It’s throwing the pieces of food from the
center of it. Food is flying everywhere. Wandita ducks as a very
large piece of food head her way. She sways one way, then the
other, as two more slightly smaller pieces head her way. All
three barely miss her.

     Just after straightening up again does she have to duck
once more like two more pieces of food head for her. Only she’s
unlucky about ducking it this time. the second piece enters her
open mouth. She opens her mouth to say something just as the
food enters it. Wandita gags a little as she gulps to swallow
it. “I can’t believe I’m being attacked by a machine.”

     “This doesn’t taste too bad.” Wandita doesn’t try to get
out of the way of three more pieces that come her way. She gulps
all three without any trouble.

     “What does this taste like?” Wandita asks as she swallows
two more easy pieces.

     Wandita smiles. “These taste like they smell. Which I know
doesn’t make any sense. Because it smells terrible.”

     “Stop preparing my food,” shouts Wandita. A few seconds
later the personal food fight ends.

     “Now I know why the beeping started,” says Wandita as she
slowly scans that room. “What a mess. This is going to take
forever to clean up.”

     Wandita leaves that room. Just before she walks out of it
she says, “Clean up this mess.”

     “I will try to figure out why this has happened later.”
Wandita starts walking down that corridor.

     Suddenly, Wandita stops and smiles. “I know what it tastes
like. Can’t wait until my next eating period.”

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