> "Aye, sir. I do have another outpost for you to visit, if you
>wish. It is a little bit out of the way, but worth the trip. We can, of
>course, visit it later if you wish..." he added.
"No, I'll visit it," she said resolutely. "I'll visit it. Kitanya out."
<snip>
>******* in the conference room *******
>
> Upon Kitanya's entrance both Brell and his toadie stood to
>attention. What was coming next there were not ready for...
>
> >
> > "As you werre," she said, taking a seat. "I've been doing some
>rrresearrch and I've come to some conclusions." She went over something on
>one of the PADD's she had, making them sweat a little.
> >
> This kind of talk was not to their likeing. As she went on they became
>more and more nervous. Especially the young host shot. He started to
>sweat just a bit. Brell on the other hand became agitated, and it was just
>beginning to show when....
> >
> > After a time, she finally looked up. "Afterrr talking to yourrr field
>commanderrrs and rrreviewing the missions that have eben taking place, I
>find the situation herrre to be completely unaccaptable. Which is why the
>two of you arrre going back to Earrrth and will be on standby until I can
>find someplace to put you wherrre you can't hurrrt anyone."
> >
> The young stud replied, "What! "
>
> Brell piped in, "This is outrageous! I have run this station as well as
>it can be run. You have no right to do this. Admiral, I have powerful
>friends, and they will not be happy at this kind of slander that you do
>here. You had better reconsider." the Commander said angrily.
She looekd up calmly, but there was a fire in her eyes that warned not only
of a dangerous commanding officer, but a dangerous feline predator who
wasn't all that far away evolutionarily from her carnivorous ancestors.
"Arrre you thrrreatening me, Commanderrr?" she asked coolly.
(resp?)
"It's not slanderrr if it's the trrruth," she said, with a sharp edge to her
voice. "Not only do I have the accounts of everrry single field commanderrr
on this base, but I have the intelligence analyses you've been spewing out
of yourrr ass and giving to them, analyses that disrrregarrd crrritical
intelligence inforrmation and underrremphasizes orrr fails completely to
warrrn teams of what they arrre heading into. I have the mission rrrecorrds
that show rrrepeated unneccessarrry trrrips to the same locations, which
even a cub could figurrre out will alerrrt the enemy to theirrr prrresence,
and I have a severrrely wounded operrrative in sickbay because his team was
almost wiped out an a mission that should neverrr have been orrrderred!"
Her voice rose as she spoke, but never out of control, just forcefully
emphasized, and angry. "How can it possibly be slanderrr when I have all
the rrrecorrds rrright herrre in frrront of me that prrroves everrrything
I've seen? And I don't give a damn who yourrr frrriends arrre, Commanderrr,
I will not have my people butcherrred because you can't seem to get it
rrright!"
(resp?)
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