After leaving the holodeck, Reia initiated a site to site transport to her quarters and immediately set a countdown for sixteen minutes and thirty seconds. She had told Dagen fifteen minutes but a woman had a right to be fashionably late to her own wedding. Her mind was on so many tracks at one time one could have thought she was in CIO mode but, it all centered on the man she was about to marry.

Part of her was looking back on the events of the last few minutes. Had she really just threatened Captain Marius with a Betazoid wedding? Was she really standing here picking out a wedding dress? Ivory? Silver? What would either of them tell their families?
So many things ran through her mind and heart yet her center was more calm than she had been in quite some time which, in and of itself, was quite amazing.

Undoing the purple ribbon from her hair, she went to untie the leather bracelets and stopped, a sly smile crossed her face and she decided to leave them. Whatever she ended up in would just have to work around them.

The computer chirped fifteen minutes as she began to pull together the assembled clothing on the bed.

• Reia