<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1.35em;"><strong>Aura Minal:</strong> Vet, Animal Specialist</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1em;"> (http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/chachi9/ch/aishwarya_rai_006_hucv-1.jpg)</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1.45em;">Aura Minal's grey eye's flew open and she gulped a deep breath of air. For a moment, she didn't know where she was. Not prone to panic, she began to assess her situation. She couldn't see far in front of her. Reaching out to touch what blocked her vision, she realized she was enclosed in something. She touched her hand to her side and running it up her waist and across her torso, she found she was naked. Then, upon hearing the "hiss" of the opening of the chamber door, it all came back to her: Novus, they must have made Novus. Aura couldn't stop the slow smile that spread across her face, wincing as her dry lips stung and burned. She would have given two cows and a horse for a large glass of Klaxian sweet water right now!<br/>She brought the two fingers up to her lips, and with eyes still shining, she stepped out of her chamber and across to her personal locker. She reached in and pulled on a simple white wrapper, and put her feet into soft white deck shoes. She was one of the first to be assigned to be checked out by the medicore to make sure there was no obvious or hidden effects from cryosleep.<br/>Wanting to have the exam overwith as soon as possible so that she might get to her animals, Aura shuffled out of the sleep room and toward the ship's hospital.</span>