<div class="floatleft">(http://25.media.tumblr.com/6ec543a2d21fbbc8bb0e4425b7bb9210/tumblr_mg6v8xklUH1rb8lf8o1_500.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Nikki Ward</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Just Entering Suiting Area</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Everyone Present</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Frantically Catching Up</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Nikki didn't quite run in but it was as fast a walk as it could be while still being a walk.  She'd been asleep when the PA sounded - the first time she'd managed to get to sleep since her arrival.  A combination of excitement and an unfamiliar bed serving to keep her awake.  Her tired brain hadn't been able to work out what the words were saying at first and she'd laid with her eyes closed for a while until it eventually filtered through and was processed.<br/><br/>Then she'd sprung out of bed and tried to get dressed, pick up her notebook and look up how to get to the suiting area all at ocne which had had the predictable effect of making all of those operations lsower than if she'd done them one at a time.  Now she was terrified that she was holding up the voyage and her chance to meet the other colonists and had raced down as fast as she could, slowing to a walk only a pace or so before the door.<br/><br/>She glanced round at those present and said "Hi" - her accent somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic - British by birth but spent a long time in the US.