“Dad, level with me, is there trouble?”
“I just worry for you, especially knowing there’s another ship lost out there.”
“So why is there even a classified element to this? Xxx video I’m sorry if you thought I was leading you on.” She said gently, with sincere apologetic regret. Unfortunately, her military career had been stymied by an engineering accident during practical placement in her final year, an equipment malfunction and explostion that had taken off her arms just above the elbow, a traumatic incident that she had to be reminded of every time she saw the metal cybernetic prosthetics clamped to her upper arms, every time she had to feel the cool metal against her own skin, and every time she spoke to her father – which she predicted she was about to do now as she reached out and prodded a switch with an extended metal finger to accept the incoming signal.
