From: Peter Aspinall (writing_rules_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2008 - 05:47:32 PDT
“Even rabbits aren’t this bad.” (contd-“
Location: GATEWAY
Scene: Intelligence office.
Stardate: [2.8]0603.1347
On a complex this large the intelligence staff was far from small, although most people didn’t know the true size of the intelligence network Drake had reporting to him, including the rest of the senior staff. Despite this the office here, the main location of the Intelligence department, was far from large, and deliberately so.
This was Drake’s public face, the place he could get work done and yet be easily accessible to everyone else. Scattered across the entire complex were further offices, for want of a better word, where he and his staff could go about their work in far more discrete and secure conditions.
The monitor on Drake’s desk currently showed Daisy’s ready room. Securing the ready room was hardly something that Daisy did often and with his knowledge of common behaviour for the senior staff the computer was capable of alerting him to many unusual occurrences.
Following so closesly the appearance of the Pnarran on the promenade it clearly hadn’t been a coincidence and sure enough as soon as Drake called up the visual feed he had in the ready room there was the Pnarran or more accurately there were the Pnarrans as the Colonel was also present and the remarkable fimilarity between the intruder and the Colonel had Drake worried.
Drake pondered the situation for a moment and looked over his shoulder as his his other self entered the office.
“This is interesting, he looks exactly like the Colonel.
“I noticed, I bumped in to the Colonel, something is off here.” Commented the other Drake as he sat at another desk.
“Our forensics people have gone over the holodeck where Thomas was injured, I am going to go and see what they have found,” said the original Drake, “It seems like the Colonel and the other Pnarran have agreed to meet, why don’t you see if there is any indication the Colonel may have a twin or something?”
The other Drake nodded and soon the office was again home to only a single copy of the Intelligence officer.
Location: SHIV
Scene: Prisoner cells
In one of the rarely remembered cells in the bowels of the SHIV a figure curled up on itself on the floor. The fabric clinging to his skinny frame used to be an outfit but now resembled more a collection of rags. He had been here for some time, one of the Doctor’s earlier experiments had left him disfigured down the left hand side of his face, and his right arm now ended in a hand with only 3 fingers, and those misshapen where little care had been forthcoming when they had been reset.
The figure however looked up and smiled, or rather attempted to, when the forcefield attenuated near the floor and one of the crew pushed some food through. The crewmember just grunted at him but that was no mind to Horatio as he uncurled himself and began to eat the slop that was covering the tray he had been given. It didn’t taste particularly appetising, but still this was a good day, they had remembered to feed him. More happily still they had even given him some water.
A second spluttering of the forcefield made his face break out in to a half grin and a mousey looking woman smiled back as she hastily pushed a chunk of bread and a piece of chicken through the hole now open in the forcefield and quickly sealed it again, though she remained to watch him clamber up in to a standing position and stand close to the forcefield, always moving to hide his disfigured side as much as possible.
“Thank you very much Sylvie, and how was work?”
“Oh I er,” She turned and the dim light caught her bruised profile, “I dropped a flux modulator, it could have been worse, he was distracted and only beat me a little.”
“I am so sorry Sylvie my dear.”
“Thank you Horatio, I must go, something is going on and I don’t want to be missed.”
“Take care.” Smiled Horatio as she little woman ran off, now with a smile on her face.
NRPG:
So Drake, or rather the Drakes, are keeping an eye on our Dark Lord as much as they can, and one of them is about to find out that the damage to the holodeck was from gunfire....
Horatio is the alternate Drake, he is a prisoner on the SHIV, and he is very very nice it seems, worried more about an engineer on the ship than himself despite all that has happened to him.
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