Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in Sausage and Scuttlebutt

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Sausage and Scuttlebutt
OOC: November 2020

IC:
=^=Synthi-er to Cobb. I need you in my office, Please.=^= Cobb would be able to tell, she was rattled by something.

=^= On my way, lass. On my way. =^= came the reply.

Something had happened. Cobb had grown to know Casela well enough over the past few months to almost take that calm, controlled demeanour for granted. Which made it all the more unnerving when that control slipped. As it had in her message just then.

Grabbing a bottle of aldebaran whiskey, he made his way quickly to the counselling deck and, without knocking, used his own clearance to access her office.
“What is it?” he asked, his eyes searching the room for her. “What’s happened?”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

She was pacing her office, and despite being a decent sized office, as far as they went, the size of an office did not lend itself to pacing unless it was Cobb’s ready room. Upon entering and the door closing she pulled a small device out of her pocket and hit a button, the room sealing itself from unwanted ears and eyes. She paced a few more times before finally coming to a stop by her desk. “It’s…well it might be a matter of ship’s security.” And of course that would mean that she should have contacted Cmdr Raauhl as well. But she was trying to keep those lines firmly clear. Should she have, or wait till she knew for sure. And honestly she was rattled, never in all her years, even with Mad Man, had she ever been this rattled and pissed off. If this wasn’t just a weird coincidences. If someone had taken her cousin and was using her to their own gain against Casela, heads were going to roll in unique and painful ways.

“This is what’s wrong.” She spun the computer interface on her desk around. There was a picture of Casela, but with startlingly blue eyes, maybe a bit younger. But the name said “En Juliet Anders, Security, USS Leviathan.” Casela hadn’t reached out to her contacts yet. It would bring notice from people and she didn’t want Shadow Man looking at her right now, not with the crew and so many that could be used against her. Not until she got the go ahead from Cobb.
Lt Synthi-er, CNS (totally rattled and stunned to inaction)