> > "My brother was telling me a story of when we were kids competing at
everything from sports to academics, and I was always known as Samuel
Lasiter's kid brother. Samuel was good at school work, I was the star
athlete of the family. As a result we did very different things. I would
get into a bit more trouble. Well, one day he told me, as I was being
grounded for the 30th time, that the reason that Dad knew so much was that
he was always watching and listening. I did not know what he meant, until
I went to the Academy and Samuel was there serving as a training officer
while taking some graduate classes. The first time he nailed me on some
cadet prank he told me and the others involved that he was always watching
and listening....." he went on to describe the incident that he was nailed
for. Admittedly it was rather amusing, in hindsight, and yet typical for
a
cadet of his make. More importantly, Kitanya knew that the CinC had put
the fear of the Almighty in the Admiral sitting right next to her.
She chuckled at the incident. "Oh, I rrrememberr those days. I got a few
demerrrits myself, except mine tended to be forrr fighting. I was
rrraised
by a Caitian and a Klingon, and trranferred herrre frrrom the Klingon
Starrr Academy, so I had verrry differrrent ideas about how differrrences
werrre to be settled." She sighed, then related the time she challenged a
senior cadet to an honor duel, and then after he'd doled out demerits for
that, had called him a coward for not accepting, which, of course, had
earned yet more demerits. "Although, I can't say what it would have been
like if it had been my own kin that had come down on me," she added.
"That
couldn't have been easy to
take."
"It was not easy at all, mostly because of the razzing I took for having my brother
being the one that issued the demerits and extra duty. But I lived through it.
Samuel would say that I was a better officer for it. Older brothers are that way
aren't they...", Tyrus said appearing to be back to his old self.
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Chris
GM- SPD & JSOC
