Day 1 - 1725<br/><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c4/BenDuskfire.jpg)</div>Character: CSO Ben Duskfire<br/>Location:   Chief's meeting<br/>With:    Haata, CMO<br/>Doing:  Working<br/>Tagging: Haata, Nadami<br/><br/>Ben Duskfire had only spent time in the doctor's presence once before; he recalled having some difficulty in repressing fantasies of being strapped naked to a bio-bed while receiving a shockingly thorough examination from him.  He had been prepared to steel himself against the CMO's Deltan influence during the meeting, but when Nadami responded to his statement on security, Duskfire found something far more effective to help him resist the doctor's aura.<br/><br/>Dr. Nadami was compassionate, yes, but also an idealist.  And idealism was something Duskfire could not respect.  He had grown up an effeminate teenager among the shipyards of Mars; as a young officer, he had seen educated men and women reduced to mindless motes of panic -- idealism was one illusion he had been relieved of long ago.<br/><br/>He was on the verge of firing back at the doctor when the Master Chief parried with her own statement of authority.<br/><br/>Duskifre nodded at her, "Thank you, Chief.  I am confident that Security will perform their duties admirably..."<br/>He looked at the doctor with the faintest trace of a grin playing on his lips, "and I'm quite sure they remember where the 'stun' setting is."<br/>