Devin saw the princess leaving her quarters and quickly walked over.  "There you are." he said, "I was wandering where you were.  Do you need me to carry anything for you?  You did remember your school pad, yes?  This poison won't prevent you from continuing your lessons.  I believe your Astrophysics lessons will help in this situation."  He would follow her if she walked away or refused to answer him, as long as she didn't order him to go away.  True, her mother had ordered him to look after her safety and see to her education, but on a friendly, safe station and only one missed day in her studies neither of those orders would override the princess's order.

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Kyle was on the bridge of the RES Aurora, double checking the communications equipment and upgrade the encryption package so that it was compatible with royal quantum encryption protocols.  He'd probably be there until the ship launched, minus the few minutes it would take to go down to the mess hall and grab a cup of tea.  He considered heading down there now, but a console beeped, informing him that his diagnostics had come back with a minor inefficiency being reported in the communications bandwidth.

Guess that would have to wait.