> "Anything I can do for you, sir, please just call." she said as she rose
>to leave. She had given something very rate for a tellerite, a moment of
>courtesy and compassion.
She was surprised, but accepted it for what it was, a gift. "I will, thank
you."
>It did not take all that long for the questions to start up agian. Just
>how did this pig get that information? Just who were her contacts? How
>does an Ensign get contacts? Just what was wrong with this picture?
It was information she wanted, and that was what she got, even though she
didn't trust the messenger as far as she could throw her. She still felt
like she was being watched every moment she was on Spacedock, and she was
pretty sure the Tellarite had something to do with that. It all seemed very
convenient, a science experiment gone wrong, and it had a bit of the
fantastic thrown in to make it sound just credible enough. She would
investigate it, but she doubted its authenticity. It sounded too
convenient, and especially given that it came from an ensign that had
nothing special on her record, at least the last time Kit checked. Maybe
the Tellarite was being used as a tool, maybe she was in on it... It didn't
matter really, she would just have to think carefully about how to use the
situation to her advantage.
For the afternoon, she started compiling a list of available personnel she
coudl reassign to commands that were understaffed. She found as many
experienced field people as she could that were flying desks and put them on
a list to send out when she found out who needed them. She also started
doing a survey of outposts herself, running a computer query to find out
which posts had experienced the same kind of dropoff in productivity as
Pumace and where they were located.
(resp?)
She also sent a message to Aurelius asking him to delegate a study to
someone he trusted to do it right, a study to look at the quality of the
reports coming from all outposts, and the incidence of repeated missions to
the same places, and the casualty rates. It would take some time to
complete, but it needed to be done.
(resp?)
While she worked, she waited for the angry messages that were sure to come
in from the fleets over what she had done that morning.
(anything?)
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