Noland said to her with utmost affinity and tenderness.
“You make me feel like the most precious and valuable jewel on earth,” Stasha responded with complete sincerity. In slumber they held each other tight.
The memory was very clear and vivid and Noland could feel a strong tightness in his throat and tears welling up in his eyes, from the intense pain of his loss.
1:10:00-PM-12/24/2110
Very shortly after the alarms had been sounded, Erik was suddenly no longer suspended, but was instead called to post on emergency all hands. He had then rushed, along with everyone else, to the control hub; the scene there was total pandemonium. The Captain began a series of orders with, “Has anyone identified what the discrepancy items are?” And when no one answered she immediately turned to her Second-in-Command and barked, “I NEED THIS HANDLED RIGHT NOW!” She walked quickly to the Captain of the Watch control box and spoke into the microphone, “Sector Three through Six personnel listen up. I need half of you to do inventories in your sections and the other half to do signal traces. Get on it now!”
Erik had expected the Sector-Four-Chief to be relaying orders to the Sector-Four-personnel; but instead it was a different person altogether; someone that he had not met before.
“All right gang, you heard the Captain,” the person began but noticed immediately the questioning looks in their eye’s and knowingly answered it with, “I’m Franz Bova, Technical Specialist L-1-Con. Your Sector Chief is currently unavailable with other matters, so I will be your temporary Chief.” He turned and looked directly at Erik and said to him, “Land, since you’re the one that discovered
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