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"Yeah, I just have to find a tech I trust to do the work and not screw it up." The he shrugged. "Rose bud is just sick of being messed with. I mean come on after what she went through on Earth, I'm not surprised." Rennell blinked oddly. Well that felt odd. He wasn't really used to feeling forced movement from his wings, since the force was not initially felt like as if one would touch your arm before moving it. "That feels odd when not in a check up setting."

One of those Rennell laughs of his. "No, not really. Moira has more extensive work done than me I guess you could say." Then another louder more expressive laugh and a scratch at his hair at her second comment. "That's what most people call me, though I don't find being so cheery a problem really. I think this place needs some cheer, what with nothing but gray cold metal to mostly look at all day."

Then a smirk to James. "See she thinks I'm sweet, not annoying." A nod as if to confirm that statement itself. Back to Lilia. "Oh...I volunteered for it. Didn't know what I was getting into at the time, but I think I didn't come out too bad. Let's just say that I wanted to get as far away from Earth as possible and was willing to do whatever I could to get away. Though the eye was an accident that became a perk."

"Nah, I don't think so. Besides, I'm sure I would be dead by now if I hadn't come here when I did. Sure, I had to volunteer for the project to stay, but I rather like the MATU system, it's fun sometimes. And two view of vision are rather handy as well."

He shrugged slightly and shoved his hands in his pockets. "Having something mechanical in you requires a lot of work and attention though, so those with more lazy attitudes tend to not be as well off." A point to James. "That's why we have people like Moira there to yell at us and forgive the pun, get us in gear."

She had seen so much and was now acquainted with all of the ships in the fleet. She wondered what Dr. Trevale was doing but for now she had to get back to her room. She gave Rennell and James a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you so much boys. You were perfect tour guides."

Then she skipped off down the hall and entered her room. Her computer was blinking an urgent message so she sat down and typed in her retrieval password. Her mother's face came on the screen. Her voice was shaky and she looked like she had been crying. Never a good sign. "Lillia Ann...I need you home. Now. Your father..." A pause as her mother left the screen and came back with a tissue. "He's in ICU..."

Her face drained of color and she shook her head. "Daddy..." Her mother needed her and there was only one thing to do. She had to see Jelena and then take the next shuttle home. She walked to Jelena's office and saw Erik. "Is Dr. Trevale finished yet?" She was trying very hard to keep from crying. "It's an emergency..."

Erik looked up from what he was doing and turned Serious on her. "No, Jelena is still held up beack there with the new Echo. It's common, she'll be in there for a few hours. Then she'll shower, change her clothes, get something to eat and go right back to work again." But at the word emergency he spared her of any details. "I'm almost as good as Dr. Trevale, what kind of emergency? What do you need?" A hand was placed on her shoulder, seeing her about to cry.

Erik nodded and immediately snatched up the computer on the desk. Setting it on his knee as he sat on the desk he quickly typed in all his identification information to get to his own screen. A quick message was typed up and sent to where it needed to be. The response was almost instantaneous as a printer hidden by files made noises and spit out what looked like an old time credit card. Walking over Erik picked it up then handed it to Lilia. "That will get you through all check points and the like that you had to do coming up here, but with much faster results. I'll inform Jelena of your absence. Take care dear, don't worry about your position here or anything, I'll keep it all in order." Yes, one of the handy things about Erik, he had authority to issue those types of quick transfer passes.

It had taken him several minutes but he finally managed to stop the arm from moving like it was attached to an overly horny and completely under-sexed teenager. "damn bulgier." Alaster said under his breath as he made his way back out of the lab, oddly enough the darn thing had tired him out so he thought that it would be in his best interest to go out for a walk, maybe peek in on the other members of the station, maybe get his hands on something to fix, that was off course his favorite past time.

Rennell was once again reading information from the disks that James had provided him with. He was currently on the third one. And though he may not want to admit it, they were useful. He had found a few things that he could categorize as being what he wanted and they didn't change what was current on him too much. Which was a plus.

Now...who to get to do it. Even after all this time he was still skittish of getting extensive work done. Truth be told he was one of the more 'delicate' of the Metamorphosis candidates. The MATU system was complex and damage to it or a malfunction would lead to death for him because of the way the two circulatory systems in his body integrated. And he just didn't like people messing with his head. Half of him wanted to ask James who he would pick. But he feared either James would offer no help...they differed quite a bit.




"So, her family is having an emergency and she had to ship home quickly. Did she say she was coming back?"

"I assume so, she didn't take all of her things with her and I believe she even left with her PAID tags still on. She'll be back, she's too excited to work here to not come back." But now he watched as Jelena was reviewing previous data on this Echo from the screens of her OODDS."Okay okay, explain to me again. Just how is this one a Variant? He looks just like the other one, I don't see it." Both he and Jelena were in one of the Echo enclosures, finishing up their final notes.

"He's a Peryton. And it's his shadow that makes him a Variant. If you had read up on things like you should often do, you would know what I'm talking about."

"I know. Peryton, myth beast of the supposed Atlantis. It has the body of a deer, with the wings and tail of a bird. And it's shadow is supposed to look like that of a man." Then he realized what the flashlight business was about and looked at the shadow Jelena was currently causing on the ground from holding a flashlight behind the critter. Looked like a deer. "Ohhhhhhh. I get it now. You think that will affect him much?"

"We'll see. Let's leave him alone for now and you know what...take the rest of the day off." They exchanged smiles they left the enclosure and then the back parts of Project Echo, keeping company until they hit Jelena's office. From there they parted ways, taking to the rest of the cruiser.