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All in all, Nova was enjoying herself. The past few months had been a mixture of training and familiarizing herself with a [i]very[/i] new environment, leaving little in the way of downtime, so having any sort of respite was a much welcome thing. Of course, that meant that the unmistakable alert tone had to cut through the holiday only a few hours after it began.

Any sort of annoyance at the inturruption was quickly forgotten as the alarm sounded again; replaced with urgency and a faint sense of dread in the pit of her stomach.

"I've got room for one more, if anyone else needs a ride back to base," Nova offered, hopping down from the railing. She paused as a thought occured to her, and glanced over to the newcomer. "Actually, Lieutenan- err, [i]Ayane[/i], you have a way to get back to base?"[/color]