<div class="floatleft">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/13431d5efcebcc887d827079efd6f14a/tumblr_midmpmJE7E1rlxy60o1_500.jpg)</div><strong>Day 1 - 09:54 Hours</strong><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name: </strong></td><td>Ensign Sofie Doortje</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>F Deck - Gymnasium (changing room then hot tub)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Ensign Maira Snowpaw</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Working Out or Working It?</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging:</strong> </td><td>Snowpaw &amp; Open</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><br/>"Ulurialuni," Sofie said slowly, tongue tripping a bit over the foreign word.  "Ulurialuni," she repeated, watching Maira's face for a reaction then saying it a few more times until the other woman's face told Sofie the pronunciation was close enough if not entirely fluent.  "Thank you.  I won't forget it."  A duplicitous request perhaps, but a well meant one.  Now Sofie had a phrase, a warning, that only Maira would understand.  It was highly unlikely anyone else aboard ship spoke Maira's native language, and less likely still that a non-Earth native being would.  Being able to warn Maira of danger, either to her or to others, could come in useful in the future.  Or it might not.  Sofie filed it away with similar bits of knowledge; little nuggets of caution and preparedness that may never be used.<br/><br/>"Maybe they're scared of me," Sofie joked.  "They saw me and ran off, leaving you behind.  That wasn't very nice of them, or maybe they think you're brave."  This smile was a little more natural, a little more relaxed and less guarded.  "Or maybe they just went to play some racquetball.  Do you play?  Maybe we could have a match some time."<br/><br/>Sofie stretched out a leg and nudged Maira's shin with it, trying to get the slight woman to relax a little bit.  Something in what Sofie had said to her, or perhaps something she hadn't said, was winding Maira up.  Just because she was at the bottom of her class and in Security didn't mean Sofie was entirely stupid.  There was no missing the way the black haired woman had cringed and pulled herself in tight during their conversation.<br/><br/>"Relax," she said and leaned her head back and closed her eyes, leaving her foot on Sofie's shin.  "Tell me more about you or your people, Snowpaw.  Or don't talk at all if you like and let's just soak.  I don't have to be on duty yet for a few hours.  How about you?"<br/><br/><br/>