When I was working down under sickbay with her, she wanted to know all about you.When I was working down under sickbay with her, she wanted to know all about you." "Hero worship?" I asked with a groan. That's the last thing I needed, and would make me avoid her like the plague. "Not really. She wanted to know more like... what fascinated me about you." "Hmmm. Does she..." "I haven't asked, I wouldn't know. She's young, Ken." "So were you." She smiled at that. "Where to now?" I asked. "Where's P'nyssa?" she asked. "She won't be on for a few days. She has to close down her office back at Cutters, and that'll take a while. She's never been to space before." "Never?" "Well, she's been from here to Earth, but that's only a 30-minute trip." "Now, it's a thirty minute trip. Back before C5, it was two days." "What I meant was, she's never been on a serious space voyage. Two days is nothing. She can visit Earth and be home in a week. This is a little different. This is a couple of years." Kathy nodded. "Well, we can go to your office, my office, or... Sickbay." "My office." "Not Sickbay?" Kathy asked, her voice tinged with amusement. "Let's not make it that obvious." I smiled. "Can I ask you a personal question?" "I hope so." "Have you ever slept with a Centaur before?" That "before" made me smile. Kathy clearly thought that, in the end, I would be sleeping with Amanda Ohadi. I paused for a few seconds to consider my answer, and said, "Not a mare." "But a stal?" she asked, raising her voice. I nodded. "You're kidding, right?" "Nope." She shook her head. "Sometimes, Ken, you surprise even me." We took a SDisk to Life Sciences, and I opened the door onto my office. It looked pretty standard. We went next door to the main lab, and I found it gratefully low-tech. |