Alita entered her quarters and sat in her favorite chair. She just sat there for a few minutes letting everything and all of her thoughts settle around her. Liza her mother’s caretaker had thought her to just settle with her feelings for a bit to calm herself. Liza had always told her that she let life get to her too much without taking a breath. After a bit of that, she checked everybody’s relevant schedules and finally figured out a time for what the captain had requested.

=^=Thienna, Baker, my schedule shows you free at 1400 today. Request your presence for rifle drills and equipment cleaning at 1400 holodeck 3. Let me know if this is a problem. Make it not a problem please.=^=

Aleta’s voice had the air of friendly authority. It wasn’t an order but it was something that you shouldn’t challenge unless it was absolutely necessary. The time between now and then was just enough time for her to actually make a good meal for them. Something she enjoyed doing and a Time killer that would put her thoughts in order.

• Alita, MO/COS