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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Mission: Death in the Shadows</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Day: 7</span></p>
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(USS Illuminar -Deck 4 - Outside Sickbay - SFI Michael Weston - 0615)</div>
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When Michael was done with the captain he had gone straight back Quinna. She had fallen asleep on her couch. At least she could follow directions enough to stay in one place. He found a blanket and covered her with it. Then he sat in the chair behind her desk
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He had time to consider what they were going to need to do for the Roanoke on the ship to be amble to trust her. It was going to have to be big, and it was going to have to be public. They did not have a lot of time to play coy with this. And to make a change
to her virginal image was not going to be easy. He just hoped that she’d forgive him when it was over. </div>
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After a time he started to look around her office. He found a small access panel that hadn’t looked as though it had been opened since the ship had been built. He managed to pry it open as silently as he could. Then he pulled the PADD from his jacket and hid
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When he was done he replaced the panel and sat down again. This time was for show. He waited five more minutes then got up. Standing over Quinna he looked down shaking his head. </div>
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“I wish we didn’t have to do this,” he whispered, then kissed her on the forehead and walked out hoping he was seen as he bumped into a table, knocking a tray onto the floor. </div>
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(Posted by Al Muir)</div>
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