Well-Traveled Rhodes (Kinsella Universe Book 6) by Gina Marie Wylie

Author:Gina Marie Wylie [Wylie, Gina Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12 -- Workup

There was one big difference between having Tam Farmer as a roommate and having Shinzu. Shinzu snored; it wasn't loud, but it was present. Tam slept peacefully, although she did wrap her arms around one of her two pillows, hugging it tight. There was undoubtedly some deep psychological explanation for that, Cindy thought, but she couldn't imagine what.

The first surprise waiting for her was the new watch bill. Instead of four watches, with one rotating to fill in for days off, there were still four watches, but watches were now six hours and days off had gone to zero.

More importantly, her battle station assignment had changed. She was no longer on the bridge, but half the ship away, in the bridge alternate, where her primary duty was in change of damage control.

For Cindy it was a bitter pill at first, but then she remembered that there had been someone on Dragon's bridge important to Captain Hall, another person important to Willow Wolf. Captain Hall and Willow Wolf had survived -- their loved ones hadn't. This was duty at its most fundamental level. She never once said anything to anyone about it -- instead she communed with Pixie getting an outline of her duties in damage control.

Over and over, she thought, she was getting her lack of basic knowledge thrown into her face. She was sure it wasn't deliberate, but it was hard. Very hard. Damage control assumed that the person in charge had a thorough understanding of the ship's various systems.

The answer was clear: what do you do to fix a broken sewage line, spewing waste into the ship: whatever you had to do to contain the problem.

At 0500 Lieutenant Shannon piloted them out of their dock and headed for their exercise area. One thing that was a mild surprise was that Sarah Shannon was posted to the bridge alternate position as well.

For one thing, Sarah didn't sit in her position, but was up and moving around, looking at each of the three manned positions, one after another.

Finally she settled next to Cindy. “You probably think Bob is a child abuser, a rapist; the worst kind of person in the universe.”

“Yes,” Cindy said honestly. “Still, people I respect say that I need to withhold judgment.”

“You realize that you're a cripple, right?”

“Pardon?” Cindy said, a little surprised. Chief Irgun looked up, smiled slightly and looked away hastily when she saw Cindy was looking at her.

“You've never been close to someone in your life. Not even a friend.”

“So I've been told,” Cindy admitted.

“I was as different from the rest of my family as a person can be. I knew it from when I was little. My father was someone always looking for 'the big score.'” She made air quotes. “He thought the job at Tannenbaum was at last what he'd been looking for his entire life. Even when they told him the odds, he was cheerful, confident he could handle it. A man who'd never handled anything in his life before.

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