"I can handle Trent, I'm not a little girl.  I could probably kill him if I had to before he'd even had his pistol drawn."  Vadya hadn't bothered to dress up this time, but she was cleaned up, her white hair tied back from when she was working on her vest.  She walked up next to him and looked out the window, catching the fleeting image of a girl younger than her walking past.  "I wished him an early happy birthday, I think it threw him a bit," she chuckled lightly.<br/><br/>*****<br/><br/>Outside Kira caught Trent's attention.  He met her on the deck and glared towards the captain's door.  "I get she was wandering by herself, but she's not one of us.  That woman is a wild animal.  I don't trust her."  He looked down at Kira, she was one of three elementals on the crew the other four were all regular humans.  Well, until Vadya had joined, now there was an even number of each.  Kira though was not one of the tribal elementals from out in the waste lands.  "What do you think of her?"