<strong>- Kroken, Aria, Passageway outside Officer's Lounge -</strong><br/><br/>Liara enjoyed the warmth of the woman who had her arms wrapped around her and held her close.  It was a strange feeling to be comforted in this matter.  Growing up during the Cardassian occupation and the Dominion War made the Bajoran's a somewhat hard people, so she had not grown up with this type of tenderness.<br/><br/>Feeling her shame begin to flow away, Liara reached up and wrapped her arms around Aria, holding her tight.  The physical closeness and the smell of Aria's skin so close to her pushed away the shame of what she had done with Pakod and stirred new life into her body.  She looked up at the beautiful face trying to calm her and stared into her eyes with a longing that reached past sexual desire.  For a moment she held the gaze and then almost unconsciously she floated forward until their lips were touching and she kissed Aria.  Her body erupted with sensations stirring in places long untouched by emotions.<br/><br/><strong>-Alassca, Grayn - Main Bridge-</strong><br/><br/>"Aye Sir"  The young man sitting at the helm quickly stabbed a few buttons on the console and the viewscreen showed the ship slowly gaining speed.  Mr Clay, full analysis of those coordinates."  The young man standing at the console behind the Captains chair, Ops, also began stabbing buttons on a console as the ship started to slow into its new orbit.<br/>"Established new orbits Commander"  Xander nodded staring at the planet on the viewscreen.<br/>"Can we get any type of visual?"  Xander asked the Ops officer.  Xander had not been conscious of it during the volley of activity, but he suddenly notice that he had placed his hand lightly on Alassca's arm.  He looked at her for a moment with a rogueish grin on his face and held his gaze for a moment as he talked to his other bridge officers.  "Whatcha got Mr Clay?"<br/>"Getting visual now Commander."  Xander finally broke his gaze with Alassca and turned to look at the view screen.  It showed more of the beautiful landscape of Selestia VII but what was obviously an overgrown and untouched region of the planet showed the remains of what looked like a small advanced colony.  The hulls and parts of all of the ships had been destroyed and broken down with age and the folliage had grown in where it could.  But you could just make out shapes of skeletal remains of large ships.<br/>"Excellent Work Alassca.  Mr Clay, scan for any unusual radiation signatures or anything that might be harmful.  If you don't find anything, see if we can beam a segment to Cargo bay too.  We'll have engineering take a look at it."  Xander nodded with appreciation at the hard work of his crew.<br/>"Now maybe we'll get some answers"  He said as gazed over at Alassca again and gave her an approving nod.<br/><br/><br/>