<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Cerise stepped onto the bridge, just a few minutes after she had been dispatched from the Sickbay.  She had to find the Captain, make sure that he was not in any dire danger, and then give him the message from Sahara.  Looking around, she found the Captain with Lieutenant Teel.  She was almost afraid to let him see her now.  Gone was the stellar, flawless beauty that she had possessed earlier.  Instead, there were touches of gray in her hair and her face had been met with a few wrinkles here and there as she aged with the chroniton's effects.  Still, she found that there wasn't much for her to be ashamed of.  She did not do this to herself.  With a soft smile in Lieutenant Teel's direction, she approached the Captain carefully.<br/><br/>"Captain Mitchell,"  she spoke softly.  "I was sent by Lieutenant Tir, to assess your condition.  I was also to regrettably inform you that even though your situation is quite dire at the moment, there is not much that Lieutenant Tir can do, but she is working on it as we speak.  Commander Osiel and herself are in the Sickbay right now, trying to come up with some feasible plan that will reverse the effects of the chronitons..."</span>