Ranlei was on some pretty heavy pain medication so she had not had so much as synthahol in the last 2 days. She didn’t mind that as she rarily drank as much as people assumed she did. Have to live down to expectations. She was however feeling like she was drunk as she hadn’t slept in three days. Her thoughts were muddled at best. She hadn’t gone back to her quarters as every time she tried to sleep she suffered a nightmare. The same nightmare over and over. She was still dressed for the party in the red bikini with fur lining and a shimmering translucent blouse and I dream of Jeanie type baloon pants. She was unhappy with herself., it was a party invite it did not say anything about children would be present. Ranlei wouldn’t of gone if she had known there were going to be children. “I am not compatable with any sort of activity fit for children.”, she muttered to herself, She couldn’t really remember ever being a child. Certainly not any sort of happy childhood.
She started awake. The Nightmare had started as she drowsed, to tired to stay awake to scared to fall asleep. Well this was far from her idea of good. Maybe sivkbay could help, No they hate me. Buy now everyone hates me. The voice from her nightmare kept saying the same thing. “But what else is she good for.”, and the shock of hearing those wotds in that voice woke her every time. She felt a very real slap, and it woke her out of the daze. It had come from one of the many mothers of children on the ship. Who likely had legitamate cause to be upset with Ranlei, the woman had likelyvsaid something like whore or how dare you. Before the slap. Ranlei didn’t care. She still ood tge woman backed off and fled. Ranlei just sighed and left the cafeteria. She set her mind on a plan. A simple plan easy to accomplish and execute and the best part was for once if she got caught her plan would still succeed.
The morning after the party Security found Ranlei unconcious in one of the detention cells. Attempts to wake her failed as she had apparently been injected with enough knockout medication to keep her under for a good long time without being life threatening. She was still dressed for the party and no logs showed her entering . The security forcefield had been activated the recorded footage had no breaks, no errors to the times codes . Furthermore security itself was locked out of the cells door controls. Only the Captain, the XO and the new CoS were authorised to unlock the cell. Induced sleep wasn’t as restful as normal sleep. But it had the advantage of being dreamless.

Ensign Ranlei Greene. Engineering.