> He was really not happy with that answer, but as a good soldier he
would obey and not make complaints about it. At least not in front of the
troops....
<[Major, the things Starfleet SpecOps does are very specialized tasks.
They've been trained in demolitions, intelligence, sabotage, traps,
assassination... The Klingon forces have similar training. Most of them
can read and speak twenty languages and drive or fly any vehicle ever made.
I know yu want to fight,]> she said, <[But this mission is about more than
combat. If it comes to it, and things go horribly wrong and we're
discovered, we'll all be up to our ears in battle. But their job is one
they've trained all their lives to do. This is their honor, their mission,
their fight. We have to respect that, as we would want them to respect
those battles that are ours.]> Brave words, but to the Caitians who could
read her body language as easily as written words, it was clear she was not
allowed to go into combat either and it bothered her just as much as it did
them.
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There would be some fine old sparring matches as this group worked off
their aggressions, Kit could see that. She talked with them about a plan
of action, showed them the little intelligence information they had on
these felinids and discussed similarities and differences. Before long,
they had a clear plan of how to proceed, and she adjourned them for dinner,
with their first training session to begin at 2000 hours. After sending
word to both ops teams to meet in Holodeck One at that time, she headed
back to change for her dinner with Black and the Klingon commander.
Torgash followed, chuckling. Apparantly he understood Caitian better than
he let on. Kit didn't go for the bait, though, and said nothing, going and
changing, then heading to Black's quarters in a Starfleet uniform with a
Klingon metallic sash across her body with her house symbol and Empire
commendations on it. She rang the buzzer, hoping she wasn't too terribly
late. The meeting had lasted longer than she anticipated.
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