Peta thinks of Jas and the bright smile she loved to see cover his entire face... she lost track of her thoughts and felt a momentary flush of embarrassed happiness. 'Wow' she thinks to herself, 'That hasn't happened for a long time!' She smiles as she toggles the mouse between some of the screens on her computer, no longer sure which one she had been looking at and still too distracted by her realisation to care. She knows she and Jas are getting on well and enjoying what time they could find together; away from here but, she thinks to herself as she glances around the state of the art network room. It was recently created for her at the expense of the mysterious Dean so she could assist him and the astral guardians in their bizarre astral planing pursuit. 'I haven't really accepted that my feelings for him are already so strong. It's been nice to have someone like this again, her smile creases a little deeper, dimpling her face and she looks around to ensure no-one else can see her happy little daydream about Jas. She is pretty sure he feels the same way... of course he did, he had said as much the other night, when they had last spent time together away from the planing and cyber-realms and all this other craziness.
She thought back to that night, it had just been dinner and a movie, both of them were too tired for anything more spectacular and involving. But that was why it was so good, they were both so comfortable together. Of course they had known each other for some time but their previous romantic, well, entanglements; the change from friends to, well, more than friends or lovers – come on girl surely you can use that label when thinking to yourself!- anyway, it had been awkward and uncertain but now they seemed to have the best of both worlds. And she was happy! I just hope it clasts she thought as she returned to collating the details of the planars devastating encounters in the cyber-realm.
She is still not exactly sure what had happened to the guardians but the result was clear enough; one death and their leader fighting for his life. Add this to Stave's death and she was unsettled about what she had become involved with. She had spoken about it a little with Jas, but he had barely given it much thought, far too caught up in the excitement of all that was happening in the astra and now the cyber-realm. If she recalled he explained it away as something which had occurred countless times before in the history of the astra, albeit centuries ago. She reminded him that it was death and probably even murder he was talking about and he responded to her like she was some naive child, taking her hand and staring directly into her eyes before starting some spiel about it being serious and dangerous but the creation of a new world could hardly expect to be all smooth sailing and that was why they both needed to help Yachi to understand what was going on! Seriously, boys could be so cocky and stupid and insulting but she knew he didn't mean to be. So when he continued to patronize her with talk of how he could also be hurt and how he loved knowing she was there supporting all the planars but that she shouldn't give him extra assistance and attention because of her feelings for him. God knows what else he had been saying, she had lost interest. Of course he had kept talking obliviously. So the only sensible thing for her to do was distract him. Which was easily achieved by kissing him. While it wasn't a problem she had encountered too often, this solution – when applied to the right boy – had never failed in keeping them quiet.
She had once more lost her train of thought, searching through network logs was still unappealing in the cyber-realm she thinks with a smirk as she gathers some of the final details to add to her report for Yachi and the remaining planars. Yachi had told her earlier that they were all about to meet with Mruyadgi and Dean whom have not yet talked to any of them since their terrifying ordeal.
The details she could gather from the computer system mostly related to the planars. While there was useful information amongst this what they really want to understand is the creatures that attacked the planars. Peta wasn't sure if she could access much about them, certainly not directly and she didn't know what to look for or where to start. She is hoping Dean, Mruyadgi and Ana can help her now with their descriptions of what occurred, though she doesn't know exactly what she is expecting them to tell her or how it could direct her investigation but it's the best chance she has of getting some direction. She just hopes she doesn't get lost in all the talk of auras, energies and the astra so can decipher some clues about these dangerous creatures, whatever they may be, and the trail they hopefully leave in the internet so she can trace them from her network. It all made for a lot of 'ifs' and 'buts' and 'maybes' but it was still the best chance that she could see.
As well as gathering details from various server logs she had considered what she saw on the system at the time. As was usually the case with incidents on computer networks you really needed to review and go into the detail to be able to get a complete understanding, if that was the case with a regular system outage it was definitely the case with supporting astral planars in a new world. Usually she wouldn't really be thinking of this kind of background stuff, if the last hour was any indication, she would probably be daydreaming about Jas she thought to herself with a grin. Well, she was ready and the meeting was soon to start, she locked her computer and made her way to meet the others.