<div class="floatright">(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb440/Khadavla/936full-jana-defi.jpg)</div>Koivu, Kaija Eerika<br/><br/>Kaija stripped down with the others easily enough, starting by untying the little nothing of a blouse that held her breasts together and tossing it into the box, then enjoying a look around at her year mates while slipping out of boots, jeans, panties and a few bracelets to bare a neatly trimmed bit of pussy hair.<br/>Noticing that Miranda was having a hard time, she quickly gave the blond girl a tight hug.  “You look fine,” she whispered, “And you’re going to do fine.  We all are.”  Kaija hurried through to the next room.<br/>She managed to bite back an indignant cry at the ugly tattoo, telling herself it was important to the process that would get her into space, and she could have it removed when the adventure was done.  She couldn’t quite bring herself to join in with the jests, though.<br/>Kaija grit her teeth not to burst into tears when over a foot of hair fell away from her shoulders, but she couldn’t stop a tear and a growl when her neatly trimmed delta, which she’d trimmed herself with secret pride for the last 3 years, was removed from her entirely—and permanently.<br/>This is mine, she growled again.  Nothing is going to stop me.  She strode with stern, secure pace into the showers and let the cold bombard her bare flesh.  Let the southerners squeal at the chill—she’d been in colder for a swim test when she was seven!  This is my trophy, my goal, my journey to the stars, and no one and nothing is going to get in my way!<br/>Too psyched to relax and enjoy the banter, she grabbed for soap and worked herself quickly clean; trying to pretend her big aureoles weren’t stiff and tingling.  That gave her strength to endure the punch of the hypo spray without so much as a grunt.  Is this an honest to god nanite immune boost?  Wow.<br/>She sat stoically and relaxed for a bit then, finding herself smiling at the banter, even blushing a little.  Wow, that red haired girl is brave!  I don’t think I’m a prude, but…  Wow.  Wade found deep, dark eyes lingering on her in admiration.<br/>When the clothes finally came, she gave a bit of a relaxed smile at the thong and pt uniform.  They’d actually found a sports bra in her size!  Wow!  She donned it to just to realize that—while she had the support she needed, it pushed up her cleavage a bit higher than she would like…<br/>Shaking her head, she found herself blushing a bit regretfully to watch all the other beautiful people covering up.  The Finnish girl finished dressing by pulling on her socks and lacing her shoes.  Then she looked to the strawberry blond girl she’d hugged earlier.  Shed’ just mentioned the reading.  Kaija bit her lower lip nervously.<br/>“This is mine,” she whispered, echoing her earlier thoughts, “Nothings coming between me and the stars.  Not drill sergeants, not hostile aliens, and certainly not books.”  The words set a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.  The books certainly felt like the harshest opponents!<br/>Amy’s comment about reading them in the three or four hours they were supposed to be sleeping, then suffering a test brought a despairing groan form her lips.<br/>When Wade voiced her own groans aloud, and suggested cheating off of the psychic girl, she looked up at the redhead again, this time her smile was almost grateful, and she giggled nervously.<br/>As the books slowly came out, Kaija hesitantly dug through hers and relief slowly filled her.  Coming to the part on micro-gravity combat—mediocre grades or not she knew what micro-gravity was.  This was like reading a sport book set in space.  She glanced up to Scott with a grin.  “Don’t be silly, sailor.  This isn’t a manual, this is a play book!”  She grinned in delight and continued absorbing it as fast as she could…<br/>She offered Miranda a full lipped grin.  “You saw that hollo too?  I loved it.”<br/>Only to groan loudly when she reached the schematics on plasma rifles.  “Okay…  It’s a manual.”<br/>She grumbled, then leapt to her feet when the Vietnamese officer entered.<br/>Wow, she thought, realizing that this imposing person with the voice of a pagan god was a woman!<br/>Wow…<br/><br/>