<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NPRG:  Apologies for the abrupt change of scenery.  Heading out for 2 1/2 weeks of vacation tomorrow and Tegian will be silent for that period of time.  So, moving this along to where he doesn't need to be in the picture...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mission:  An End and a Beginning</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Day: 2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stardate:  2446.03.17</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Vulcan - Capital City - Nivar Institute - </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ACEO Ensign Tegian Pex - 1249</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sath had hidden away for eight years and T'shalaith had only known for fifteen days.  What influence over her life had he had during that entire time without her knowledge?  Parents invariably shape their children's lives, but this... this was insidious.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tegian laughed at her look and gently squeezed her hand.  "That's what  I thought."  </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tegian left the room, found a nurse and came back with him.  "The Doctor is busy with other patients, but I've gotten us cleared to return to Illuminar, as long as you beam back to Sickbay.  You'll have to stay there until you get cleared.  And, as I'm assuming you'd rather be back onboard, I told them you would agree."</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tegian clicked his comm badge, picked T'shalaith out of her bed and said, </span></font><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">"Illuminar, two to beam back.  Straight to Sickbay, please."</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">(Illuminar - Deck 5 - Sickbay - ACEO Ensign Tegian Pex - 1255)</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">T'shalaith and Tegian rematiriatlized back in Sickbay.  Tegian found an empty bed and gently deposited her back in it.  He nodded to one of the nurses.  "We left Doctor Solace back on Vulcan, but we got permission to return as long as T'shalaith returned to Sickbay for observation."</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tegian tucked a blanket around T'shalaith.  "I'm going to go find out what I can about Teresa while you rest here, okay?  If you need anything, contact me."  He squeezed her hand, paused for a moment to let her reply and then left Sickbay.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">(Reply T'shalaith, IFY)</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">(Illuminar - Deck 4 - Tegian's Quarters - ACEO Ensign Tegian Pex - 1310)</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tegian was running a search for a Teresa Jackson born on </span></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";white-space:pre-wrap">Vulcanis Lunar Colony and last known whereabouts.  He left the search running and told the computer if she wasn't there to search for any movements of a Teressa Jackson from that Colony and trace her location.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";white-space:pre-wrap">He then stripped off his clothing and jumped into the shower to cleanse away the hike, the sweat and the worry of the morning.  After getting out and dressing, he checked the computer to find out that Teresa Jackson had left the Colony and had traveled quite a bit after T'shalaith had lost contact.  Surprisingly, she was on Earth.  It seemed that she had family there in some location called Manchester, England.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Tegian sat down and replicated a grakizh salad, feeling the need for a taste of home.  He drank a lot of water, needing to replenish what had been lost earlier in the day.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">He then laid down and took a short nap, feeling the effects of the hike, figuring that T'shalaith needed time to recover and that she would be able to do anything with the information about Teresa just yet.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">(Illuminar - Deck 5 - Sickbay - ACEO Ensign Tegian Pex - 1520)</span>  <font face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Tegian arrived back at Sickbay to find T'shalaith still in the bed.  She had her eyes closed, so he handed one of the nurses a PADD with the information about Teresa Jackson and asked her to give it to T'shalaith when she awoke.  He then went to Main Engineering, feeling much more centered and worked on some of those long overdue maintenance items.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;marg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