Keval was about to respond when he looked above the cadet at the second floor of engineering. “No, no, no. I know I don’t ask for much. But if you re-calibrate the warp field like that, the next time we go to warp, the field will destabilize again, and I’ll be the one left explaining to the Captain why we’re moving slower than a slurmverge at night.”

Taken aback, Tristan blinked and turned to see where Keval was diverting his attention,. A level up, he watched as an officer methodically danced their fingers across the interface in a flurry. He squinted, wondering how the hell Keval could’ve seen that from this distance… and wondered what the devil a slumverge w–

“Cadet Halloway, was it? Well come along, then.”

Focus, he thought to himself. Tristan turned and stutter-stepped to catch pace with his commanding officer, and enter the elevator with him.

• Cadet Halloway, Engineering