Alita laughed.

“Yeah, I guessed something like that. By the time my brother, Donnie, and my cousin, RJ, were about this age I was already at the academy and didn’t spend a lot of time around younger boys, or whatever.”

Alita stopped talking and began pacing. She still wasn’t quite used to the particular spring in Cel’s legs.

“I swear, if I don’t get an answer from science, medical, or even engineering, in like the next thirty seconds, I’m out of here.” she said attempting to be stern but sounding more like a petulant teenager.

• Alita, COS

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Auzria had chosen to come check in on the.. officers, to see how they were holding up.. but most to make sure they hadn’t destroyed anything in their frustration. Stepping into the holosuite, it didn’t take long for the middle-aged scientist to find her way to the COS and the Ensign. “You lot seem to be doing mighty fine,” Sarcasm dripped from the scientist’s tone. “Heard you commed science and sickbay. Everything all right?”

Ens. Voq

ALita jumped to her feet and glared then couldn’t help but laughed a bit. That must have looked ridiculous in Cel’s young body.

“No. We are most definitely not alright. I want my body back. Let’s start by telling me who’s holding this up? What have you learned so far? Can I do something more than play trains?”

She shot the questions rapid fire not giving a damn about former etiquette.

• ALita, COS