Following the frustrations of the political posturing, Ceraun found a quiet corner of the shuttle where she plugged into the massive supercomputer ACASIAS for the most necessary of resource drains possible: listening to music while she felt the natural energy of the planet course through her. Even though the city felt about as artificial as a starship, somewhere beneath the buildings and streets lay soil and the molten core of a living planet. It was all she needed to be at peace, and she basked in her meditative rituals.

That was, of course, until she was interrupted by the message from Virne. Ceraun remained silent until the General had cut communications and had begun bellowing as he was wont to do. [color=00aeef]"Security is not the concern of the medical team, Creft,"[/color] she replied pointedly. [color=00aeef]"I have suggested before that we secure all potentially dangerous equipment with more stringent biometric locks, but that was waved off as being too 'invasive.' The test subjects are not my security concern once they are out of my control, and you know this. I can only work with the tools given to me."[/color]

This wasn't the first time one of her suggestions had been ignored, resulting in injury to another. Of course, both she and Creft knew that she generally overshot on her recommendations, as compromise was required on a resource-limited vessel. However, with Zelthis, there was no overstating either the danger he posed or the difficulty in containing him. It was one reason he made such an excellent test subject.