<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/64/Lena_Kristin_Holtzmann.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Lena Holtzmann</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Reactor Monitoring Office</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Alone </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> Monitoring the reactor </td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/><em>Gott in Himmel* </em>It was possibly even colder here then in the rest of the place. I had taken off my suit and left in the maintenance block. Before I came here I had put my stuff in my locker and had gone straight here. The reactor was still quite vulnerable now. It was being used again after thirty years and any leaks, cracks or other problems would show up now. So far though, Knut was running like a charm. It wasn't on full power yet as the monitor showed. It was currently running on 30% of it's total capacity. Because of the thirty year pause, I had suggested to build in a limit and when everybody agreed we decided to run the plant on half of the maximum capacity for at least 24 hours before removing the lock and turning it up to full. In order to do that, I had to go to the reactor again.<br/><br/>As I sat there, looking at the monitors I realized there were no windows at the office. Not the views would be all that good but still, better than tons of monitors and walls. Part of the total operations control room, the reactor control were tugged away in a corner of the room with the computers creating a sort of wall to separate 'my office' from the others. When my computer had started I logged in and walked through all procedures. All my files were on a portable memory drive in my bag in the locker but I would upload them to the computer later. My research was on there, as were all other experiments I had to for others. Yes I would be spending quite some time in the reactor building running tests and trials for people on a different planet.<br/><br/>I sighed and looked at the clock. Despite all travelling and different planets and all, humanity somehow hung on to the 24 hour rhythm like parasites would stick to their host. I guess it's part of what makes us human. It was afternoon and although I had no idea what else I could do, I decided that I wouldn't start working just yet. Tomorrow would be a fine start. Maybe I should pay a visit to Madison with the excuse that the walls were coming at me and how terrified I was to being here. As I needed an excuse to see her. I leaned back and kept watching the monitors until the reactor was at it's 50% peak. I send commander Cotter a message about the reactor being at full half strength and left the control center looking for my bag and my suite. I desperately needed something homely.<br/><br/><br/>*God in heaven