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Guest Laarell

"Illuminated"

There was contact with the Alpha Quadrant again -- contact with home!

 

Laarell had wrested control of communications from one of her equally-eager assistants, and seized onto the soon-to-be incoming messages. She knew that they'd likely all be receiving scores from family, friends, colleagues, superiors...

 

Worry-driven communiques. That was troubling to her -- how stressed their families and friends had been. On one hand, she was glad that their fears would be relievedl on the other, she knew their concerned messages would be heart-rending. She was glad she wouldn't have to wait any longer to get through to her own contacts.

 

Her own excitement at the letters from home made it even more rewarding to play mail-lady in this particular circumstance. It would be a heavy load over the next few weeks or so, and would draw her attention away from Science more than she wanted, but there wasn't much she could -- or wanted -- to do about that.

 

All in all, things seemed to be looking up. Even her spider, over whom she'd so worried during the battle's destruction, had been unharmed. The battle had ended in victory for their forces, and once more, they had contact with their Starfleet superiors...

 

Then again, maybe that in itself was something to be concerned about. Now was their time to lend testimony to all their doings in the Gamma Quadrant since their last communication with the brass back home. Laarell was sometwhat relieved that she'd be fairly uninvolved with that -- at least, she hoped she would be. Some of the finer details of their operations might not have held up to Starfleet's exacting diplomatic standards, she supposed. Somehow, the Orion pitied Day, Corizon, Sorehl... any of the command staff who'd have to make the explanations.

 

But, internal matters aside, they were out of the woods and into the clear -- at least until they got back to the Gamma Quadrant from Deep Space Nine. And that was a thought which Teykier very desperately needed. That there was light at the end of the tunnel, and that Excalibur had finally reached it; that there was very soon a return to the feel of Starfleet she'd known for so long before the Scorpiad invasion; that things from where they were could only improve -- that was what bolstered her long-since-faded spirits.

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