“Deacon said he, and I quote ‘I wouldn’t miss your wedding for anything and that even if I ended up in a coma somehow, I’ll find a way’. End quote. I told him it was a little too soon for that sort of comment after everything with Cass and her family and the Tian An Men,” Vora said as she set down the plate of cheese fries. It had become one of her favourite foods ever since Johann introduced them to her. Finally an acceptable form of potato. It was the only way she’d eat that nasty vegetable.

In her duty uniform, but with her jacket over the back of one of the dining chair, she moved about the quarters comfortably, long accustomed to being in them. After all, soon she would actually be living in this space and that was going to be a change. But Jerrin would get his own quarters (he did not need two bedrooms) and the young man was decidedly happy about that.

Moving to the replicator, she looked over her shoulder. “What do you want to drink?”

~Vora Zorell, Sciences