<div align="center"><strong>-=the stowaway – single stateroom 2 – the Gamble=-</strong></div><br/>Watching the sweet girl crumple into an emotional mess, the stowaway-rescuer realized that her own personal predicament was not the only serious situation to deal with immediately. Her hands trembling, she moved to the head of the bed and pulled down the single sheet, wrapping it carefully around the naked pilot without touching her. Seeing her enveloped in the thin cover, she moved to the intercom and took only one full second to bring her heartbeat under control before pushing the button and opening the ship wide channel with a whisper of static.<br/><br/><em>* clearing throat *</em>“<strong>Vinnie? Meet us in stateroom two… now?</strong>”<br/><br/>Releasing the button, she glanced once at the tearful pilot, sure she would not move for a few minutes. Uncertain what would happen after Vinnie arrived, hero-girl thought to tend to her own nakedness and ducked out of the room to find her pillowcase, hiding evidence of her having lived aboard for a few weeks by tossing it into the cabinet above the laundry. Recognizing that the man (and anyone else who might accompany him to investigate the anonymous summons in a stranger’s voice) might arrive shortly, she ducked into the first stateroom, now made empty by Anwar’s departure. Ensuring that the door was closed, she stole that room's bed sheet for her own makeshift toga. Wrapping it around herself over the wife beater and securing the ends over one shoulder, she held her breath behind the door, listening for stomping or questions, subconsciously counting to 200.<br/>