Desperate Times ...

Continuing events from "Not Quite a Way With Words" which is taken from the larger adventure here in the Scrapjack Universe. For a thin man, Dr. Kana slung the oversized plasma cutter like a seasoned straatveger. That is if the straatveger was six shots into an old bottle of Stadick’s Fusion Reserve. 

The cutter swung down in a wild arc, the blue-white ‘blade’ removing an arm-sized chunk from the operating table Braam had occupied a moment ago. The still-hot slag of metal hit the deck with...