<hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Date/Time:</strong> March 11th, 9:40am</span><br/><hr/><hr/><br/>"Please, don't apologize," the Captain said, even as she-- quite confidently,- reaches out to take one of the frosted 'cookies'...<br/><br/>...the attention on her as she samples it is somewhat uncomfortable, and thankfully, she is somewhat 'grateful' when Petra shifts the situation away from 'does the Captain like the cookie' and toward the topic of-- apparently Alexander had mentioned something about additional training? That said, as it turns out, though it's a bit overly sweet for her taste...? Elizabeth<em>does</em>like the cookie. It tastes, well,<em>good</em>and before long she's managed to finish it off.<br/><br/>Offers of a second cookie are politely rejected,--<br/>--she isn't a huge "sweet tooth" person, and really, the first cookie had been more than enough for now.<br/><br/>"...I'm afraid I can't say 'just like Mother used to make,' but, that was a good cookie," Elizabeth finally notes, during a slight lull in the conversation. Giving Tyrone Pree, who seemed to have deferred to the Captain's presence with a few moments of silence, a slim little smile even as she gathered the attention back to herself. "Now what's this about training?"<br/><br/>It's a bit of Slack that Alexander picks up without much delay.<br/><br/>"I was asking Sybil how she thought our Nihonjin contingent would react to a bit of a training regiment," the Australian notes. "'Boot Camp', I've been thinking of it in my head, as a rough concept. I know this is primarily a peaceful mission but--"<br/><br/>"--our orders are quite clear that not intended to start any trouble out of the vastness of space as we're exploring it, but, also that we're not to sit on our hands if we should run into any," Elizabeth notes, running through the basic idea pretty instantly. "In that regard, some 'brush up' training for our civilian contingent wouldn't be a bad idea, though I'd definitely not recommend calling it Boot Camp. I'd suggest delegation, as well, as your own plate will be rather full."<br/><br/>Alexander nodded, seeming-- appeased, and impressed,- "I hadn't intended to organize it myself, exactly, and nor did I intend to<em>actually</em>call it Boot Camp."