Six ships over two weeks and Leah needed a vacation! She had never been so excited for the to drop out of warp to rendezvous with the Sentinel. Some ships she had bene on longer than others, but from the USS Harmony it had been the USS Endurance, then the USS Antares, then the USS Copernicus, then the USS Exeter and finally the USS Springfield.

Leah had been on starships before, travelling to Earth, and of course her cadet training, but this was different. She was here to stay. This would be her new home, and that prospect was as exciting as it was daunting. There would be no jaunts over to Spain on her days off to visit with her grandmother, no hiking in the hills, no swimming in the ocean, brine clinging to her hair. Blowing out a breath, she stepped up to the transporter pad, a standard issue duffle bag slung over one shoulder. The rest of her belonging would be sent over via the cargo transporter.

“Good luck, Lieutenant. The Sentinel is a great ship,” the chief at the transporter said.

She gave him a beaming smile. “Gracias, Anthony. I’m looking forward to it. Ready now.”

Everything swirled around her and then she was standing on another transporter pad ready to start this new chapter of her life.

~Leah Hart, NP