Helena looked at Marceau and sighed, “Okay, okay. I’m going.” She didn’t want to get up. She hurt and her muscles kept twitching painfully. It had been stupid to go through that workout. She was going to hear it in full from Marceau later. She always did.

It was sheer determination that got her up and in her feet and moving despite the spasms. It was Helena’s stubbornness that stopped her complaining on the way down one deck to the medical bay.

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