After leaving Captain Phillips, Dora returned to her quarters. She checked on her little friends and then sat at the computer station. First she sent her request to frelance her squad to get an idea on what they could do and how much work they would need to get up to her exacting standards. She would then know where they needed the most training. It was her job to keep them alive in any given situation. That required extensive training that was never over. They would have learn to work as a team with her at the head. That meant that her training was also never over. She pulled up her squad members files and went over them with a fine tooth comb. It looked like a good mix of skills and abilities. She'd have to devise plans to use each one and to push them to expand on them. She next pulled up the marine inventory list. She wanted to know what weapons and equipment was available to use. While she was at the computer she also sent her medical file to sickbay. And had the computer make her appointment for her physical that was always required when you went aboard a new ship. It was getting late even though there was a lot of other research she wanted to do. It didn't all have to be done right now but she pulled up files on Walker, the captain and XO. She skimmed through them with a promise to do more later. She then pulled up the file on Talia and copied it to a disk along with everything else she downloaded and put them all in a case next to the screen. Dora got up and stretched like a cat, stretching each and every part of her body. She always felt better after a good stretch. It was one of the habits she had gotten into as a child. Being the daughter of a diplomat meant she had had friends of the feloid species and learned much from a multiple of species. It had made for good training not only for her celluar manipulations but in many forms of self defense. She readied herself for bed after a nice cup of relaxing tea. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~