43"Did you ever have one of those days?" said Cairn. "One of those days when you've just finally had enough?"
Vore howled with terror as Cairn shook him over the great chasm of the command center.
"Well, I have," said Cairn. "Like thirteen years ago." He swung Vore back from the edge, then swung him out over the chasm again. "The first time I laid eyes on this mother-fluxer."
"Please stop!" Vore's voice wailed in an upper register now, spiking with sheer panic. "Don't do this! What about the good times?"
"Like when you had the bomb put in my head, you mean?" Cairn swung him up, then down. "Like all the times you used it to make me do whatever you wanted?"
"I would never let you blow up! We were meant to be together!" said Vore, and then he howled as Cairn swung him up and do
