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"I was actually trying to find someone on this ship with a smidgen of intelligence or decency, but apparently I was mistaken in looking here. Like most men, I see that most of the thinking is done below the belt instead of in your brain."

Enzo looked the girl over. To most observers, it would look like he was checking her out, but he was just reassessing her worth. A girl who knew the worth of having companions on this ship, and more than that, knew enough to approach him out of this rabble had enough intuition and smarts to possibly make it out of this journey alive -- which means she could prove useful to him.

The girl was no longer just a pretty face to Enzo, she was a potential asset.

"Okay, I'll bite. So what? You lookin' to team up or somethin'? I know what value I add, but what about you? How do you help me? I mean, beside being a pretty face." If she wanted to get straight to the point, he wasn't going to beat around the bush either.

As Enzo waited for an answer from the girl, he noticed two pairs of unwanted eyes on his back. The two engineers from earlier were watching him with increased interest.

Perhaps it was the way they stared at him, like he was a trapped animal at a zoo and they were the spectators, but Enzo didn't like it one bit. It pissed him the fuck off.

Making direct eye contact with Lucas, Enzo did the dumbest thing he could have done at the moment, shout out across to his superiors.

"Hey, shit heads, don't you have 'pipes n shit' to fix? If you guys are truly vets here, why don't you go make yourselves useful and scram."

Enzo wasn't sure what the consequences of disrespecting your superiors was here, but he knew on his former ship, shit like that would get him thrown out the airlock. He let his emotions slip. A mistake. A big one. He hadn't thought being here had affected him so much, but clearly he was just as sleep deprived, agitated, and anxious as everyone else.

He couldn't take back his words, though, and damn it if he were to die lying down like a dog. He was all in on his insubordination. All he could do now was hope for a miracle.