=====Some bar, SB Kinsi ===== {Time to go} Shane thought as he drank the last sip from his cup. The two old man near him ceased to wonder about the crazy youth of novadays and concentraced full @ their chess game. Paying few credits for his drink, Shane stood up from his chair and slowly walked out the bar. Very suprisingly ... Shane met virtually noone from the crew on board the station for the last day, what was quite unusual with the ship beeing on R&R. But on the other hand ... many humans tended to spend their free time on the ship, enjoying the holodecks or the extended times in the mess hall. Even the small arboretum on the ship was a favourite place for meetings. Especially for couples ... Speaking about couples, Shane walked slowly along the promenade and thought about a little gift for his beloved Rangi. He hoped she will be soon back from the station's infirmary and that they could have some quality time together in the quarters, Shane managed to drag from the funny station's OPS Ensign. Shane did expect some more troubles when asking for a second quarters and Ens. Skywalker assigned him one in a minute ... but you dont look @ the teeths of an gifted mule ... For a fragment of a second Shane had the feeling that he saw Mike Blackburn, their Chief Engineering officer walking along ... clad in light armour! Dismissing the thought fastly, Shane shook his head and though how silly that idea was ... Suddenly Shane catched a glance of something unusual ... something beautifull. A flower ... a beautifull rich red flower of exquisite shape and appearance. Of course ... in the shop of the old smuggler Secombe. Yes, well ... there was no official evidence of Secombe beeing a smuggler .... but let's be realistic ... what could a flower dealer do in all the long evenings? Exact ... smuggle. SHane was a bit surprised about how many other people were in Secombe's shop. It seemed that most of them were interested in the beautifull flower. Just like SHane. A woman clad in a rich blue robe just took off five of those flowers with a happy facial expression. Otheres were asking about the flower ot trying to buy one or two. Shane's enthusiasm froze a bit as he heard the actual price for one cut flower. It was a price one could usualy buy a full rose bouqet ... with an errand runner to bring it to your house ... But well, starfleet payed its executive officers quite well, and cause Shane doesnt had many possibilities to spend his credits ... he only noded as the old gauner Secombe was telling him the price for one flower. Rangi liked flowers very much ... and Shane knew it, so he was quite sure that she will like this one for certain. Shane payed for the flower fresh cut and asked Secombe to wrap it up the the usual paperlike (replicated fabric of course) thing. Armed with such a powerfull weapon of love ... Shane headed towards the 'Four aces bar' ===== End of log ===== Cmdr. Shane Guzman XO USS CHimera