<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">Mission</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40);"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40);">: Murder on the Exeter Express<br>Day:03<br>Stardate: 2554:<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(107, 126, 148, 0.38);">12:03</a><br> <br>( Loch Lomond - Coma induced dream - Tac/Sec Ens.(Sg) Stan More - 01:26 )</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stan looked around he was standing on the Loch bank. The sky was a deep blue More had never seen before. But the water in Loch Lomond was dark and forbidding. A man sat in a small boat on the shore line. He gave Stan a wave.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As More approached he saw that the man was dressed. In one of those old style Starfleet uniforms. The type worn during the dominion war. Stan recognised him at once. It was his late grandfather. Another fugue seemed to hover on the opposite side of the shore line. Strange music seemed to be coming from him.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ Ya nay want that yin boy. Unless yer want.” He said to Stan.” He be the phantom piper. Come to escort to fallen warriors to the afterlife.”</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ I am nay warrior. People died because of me.” Stan said. </span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ Did they? Maxine would of killed them nay matter what yer did or said. You were blocked off you could nay reach them. The moment that insane harpie took yer all prisoner thy were doomed.” His Grandfather said</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ But I wear the yellow...” Stan began</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ Yellow Red. It’s not the colour ye wear. It’s what beats beneath the cloth. Ye have a good heart Stan. To protect the innocent that’s what they tell yer. But what the dinna teach is when things go against you. Your friends know you would of died for them a million times. But fate prevented you.” Butch McTaggard said</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ What do I do?” How do I face my friends?” Stan asked </span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ A complete change. A new start. Ditch the yellow for blue. Go to the department you wanted to go to in the first place. “ Butch said</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ What if I can’t?” He said</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Shock-induced Paroxysmal Atrial Flutter.” She replied. “Crash Trolley...NOW!” she snapped, her years of training coming back to her in an instant. “Paddles set to 250!”</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He looked around trying to see the source of the strange voice.Bright light began to envelop him.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ Grandfather.......” Stan said</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">( Reply , None )</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">( Posted by Norman 🐼)</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“ Never trust anything that can think for itself. If you can’t see where it keeps it’s brains.” :- J.K. Rowling</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1d2228" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>