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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1584147" data-attributes="member: 515">Chapter XXXVDate: 125 and 126-993Place: Medway, Bromley, AliefThe morning of the 125th finds Marcus and Martha trying to arrange for the equipment and supplies needed to repair the Bray Keaven. Major Eckels and Lt. Col. Billings are both very helpful, and by the early afternoon Martha has the supplies and equipment that she needs to get started as thanks for the work the Bray Keaven has done, and the entire crew pitches in to help (as much as they can and as much as Martha will allow) under her direction. Darishun does try to encourage Emile to restrict himself to light duty in order to aid recovery from his wounds.During a break, Marcus checks on the status of the evacuees from yesterday’s pickup. The family does seem to have been exposed to the rabbit hemorrhagic virus and survived, but the mother and children have not contracted AHV. However, the attack by the crazies has also exposed Eddie Boise to AHV, and he is not expected to last the day.Marcus talks to Lt. Col. Billings about other pickups. Given what has happened on the other pickups, the lieutenant colonel is hesitant to suggest that the ship endanger itself with other pickups. Given that Martha is working away on the hull, Marcus decides to take a break for a couple of days.-----By around 1130 on the morning of the 126th, Martha has the understructure of the crumpled section back into shape. She still needs to meld the alloy and repair the jump grid, but she says that the handling should be improved, if not quite back to normal yet.A break for lunch finds the crew gathered in the crew lounge, er, ummm, "enjoying" a meal of Marine rations when the comm chimes.Marcus steps over to the nearest comm panel and answers the hail. "Bray Keaven, Captain Argent speaking," he announces.It is Vasilii, calling from the hotel in Kingan, requesting the Bray Keaven meet the holiday group in Nielsen.-----When the signal goes dead, Argent turns to the rest of the group. "Suit up, people. We need to meet Vasilii at the border in an hour. Martha, get your babies fired up."With that, Marcus heads for the bridge. Vargas follows Argent to the bridge. "Let’s hope this is easier than our last pick up."Martha quickly heads down to engineering, and runs all her pre-flight diagnostics. Once they are complete, Martha runs outside to get the work crew and repair supplies moved away from the partially repaired section of the Bray Keaven as well as bring her tools back inside. The rest of the ship’s crew dons their vacc suits and get into position.Marcus contacts Lt. Col. Billings and clears the ship’s departure with the Bromlian military. Luckily, Lt. Col. Billings does know about the holiday group's foray into KGL and clears the departure through with a minimum amount of information exchange and fuss.Shortly afterward, the far trader lifts off from the airport and heads towards Nielsen.</blockquote>

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