<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Day: 2 </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Stardate: 2445.12.02</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">(USS Exeter - Deck 8 - Aft lounge - COO Ensign (sg) Paul Sleeford 09:15)<br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Sleeford sat at the table opposite Page after wishing her well in her new relationship with Zot, the personal details to be honest where none of his concern, as long as they worked well together, he was happy for them.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">“Thank you, Sir. Can i ask something?”</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Looking up from the table Sleeford smiled and nodded; "Of course, what do you want to know?"</span></font></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">“How are you doing, Sir?”</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Sleeford</span></font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">paused and stared at the coffee mug for several seconds, the question seemed</span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">innocent</span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">enough, but the implications ran deeper.</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">"To be honest I've been better, I'm a suspect in an investigation of the murder of a Starfleet</span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">intelligence officer, i'll be frank, the man was a pain in the backside, however he didn't deserve to die. I have members of the crew already assigning guilt and i would assume that the others are in the same boat." </span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Sleeford paused and took a breath, the niggle he'd had earlier was not smacking the back of his head trying to gain his attention. </span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">"Add to that that there's something that  is driving me mad, there's something i'm not getting. Trouble is that I'm still a security man at heart, despite the move to Ops, I'd like nothing more then to be out there sticking my nose into things that i shouldn't, but i can't  . Something is not right with the entire set up and I'm not getting it, something that.... oh i don't know. I'll probably wake up in about three days time in the early hours shouting like a loony and get carted away to the medical centre.</span></font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Rylee listened as he talked, not wanting to interrupt.</font></span></p><div><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="">(Reply Rylee IYW)</font></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="">(Posted by Alistair)</font></span></div></div></div></div></div>