<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3f/Pelani.png)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Lieutenant Pelani (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/Pelani)<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Engineering<br/><br/><strong>Time:</strong>Mid-Morning<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/>Quietly enjoying the slow day in Engineering that put her mind at ease, Pelani leaned casually against a bulkhead, tapping lazily at a console as she took in the shield harmonics data from the Artemis' last warp and imagined everything it represented, her mind's eye zooming in to atomic and subatomic scales. Operating under the alternate physical laws of subspace, where quantum mechanics would carry through to greater scales, whole molecules vanished and reappeared like ghosts, traversing fourth dimensional folds just as plainly as second dimensional lines. A human student at the academy had described it as playing with marbles on a great, gooey, bubbly origami paper, but Pelani had better success imagining it as it was, however indescribable.<br/><br/>The cough of a distant engineer broke the science officer from her trance, and she straightened her posture reflexively. She couldn't speak for the systems like they could, but the shields themselves seemed to be in order. When weren't they?<br/><br/>Glancing at her PADD, she saw no further assignments, noted the time, and showed some disappointment. That couldn't be all. Was she rushing through recklessly? Was specializing a mistake? Was she just not trusted to be—<em>Stop.</em>She stood up straight, hands clasped behind her, and breathed deeply, settling her nervous thoughts.<em>This has to stop.</em><br/><br/>She pivoted and began to make her way out to the corridor. If she was to remain on-duty without assignment, then it was appropriate to idle in a science lab.