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> > The chime to Shevab's office rang.
> >
> > {Enter,} commanded the Commander.
> >
> > The door to the Chief of Engineer's office slid
> open to reveal a human.
> He
> > stepped in and quickly turned to the door and
> pulled out a phaser. He
> shot
> > out the controls before turning back to Shevab
> and targeting him.
> "Good
> > morning, Commander. I was wondering if I could
> have a few minutes of your
> > time."
> >
> > {I normally see people only by appointment, but
> I do have a few free
> > moments.} Shevab said as he rose up a bit on his
> ramp, and internally
> activating his
> > hind-brains while building up psi to one of his
> acid filled stomachs for a
> > fine stream spray if need be.
> >
> > "Thank you, Commander. I appreciate your changing
> your routine for me,"
> the
> > new arrival said with a sneer. "Before you work
> to hard at it, please
> > understand that I have been covered with a base
> coating that will
> counteract your
> > natural acids. Such an attack would be useless."
> He made his way over
> to
> > one of the chairs set up in the office for
> visitors and sat down.
>
> {Yes but only for a few microns at most, your eyes,
> mouth and ear portals are still vulnerable. You have
> a
> weapon, and so do I, until you put yours away,}
> with
> that Shevab began releasing small traces of other
> chemicals that would raise detector alarms at other
> stations, preferably his new Second's.
>
> His hind-brains began running passive scans in all
> spectrums to tell him more about his visitor.
>
> The newcomer nodded his head in acceptance. It
> made no difference. "You can
> call me Adam. Some colleagues and I thought it was
> time to sit down and
> have a little chat with some of the department
> heads on the station, and you
> seemed like the obvious choice since you are so
> different from your colleagues."
>
> Scans of the intruder indicated nothing amazing
> about him. Adam was a
> simple human. The sensors did detect some sort of
> lotion on his skin that would
> likely protect him from an acid attack as he had
> described. He appeared to be
> armed only with a phaser. He carried no other
> equipment besides a simple
> tricorder.
>
> {What difference? Species-wise? Reputation-wise? I
> would like a brief
> explanation of your criteria,} asked the Commander,
> hopefully stalling his intruder
> some.
>
> Adam studied the Horta for a moment before
> responding. "Let's just say that
> your unique physiology brings you to our special
> attention. Your kind does
> not really belong at an Earth installation so
> talking to you seemed like it
> would make a clearer statement than talking to, say,
> Counselor Kirk."
>
{Oh, an "Earth Firster' or some other myopic group
that believes they are the 'Chosen' or whatever.}
>
> Meanwhile outside the office, a light began to blink
> on Celine LaLune-Ares'
> workstation. It quickly caught her notice since she
> was looking right at it.
> It was a alarm from Commander Shevab.
>
> Celine was not really sure how to take the alarm.
> What reason would the
> Chief have for sending her an alarm? He had had a
> visitor, but could that be
> it? She turned and made his way over to his office.
> The door was closed,
> which was rare. Few engineers closed their office
> doors because they spent so
> little time in their offices. She pressed the
> opening mechanism and heard the
> buzz as the system failed. That was not good.
>
> She rang the chime.
>
>
> Inside the office...
>
> Adam shook his phaser at the door. "I would suggest
> you get rid of whoever
> that is. This phaser is set to kill, and it can
> take care of whomever is at
> the door before either of you can do anything,
> Commander."
>
One of the Horta's cilcia extended and touched the
comm button, {Denied. Please resume your work on the
simulations of trans delticphases on the new Bradsson
systems.} hopimg she would catch the protcal reference
amidst the vaporware jargon.
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