Subject: Re: Grail: "The Great Brightness" - `Countdown to Danger'

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"Ms. Donucci.", Epic said, smiling at her. "Make sure you get

your rest tonight. Because tomorrow, it's all YOU."

All eyes turned to Alison as Epic walked up to her. His tone was

low. "And I want DeMontigny with you in case we have to `shoot the

curl'."

*Give me a break....... using gravitational pull to gain moment is as

olld as spacetravel itself.* Alison looks away from Epic and down at

her console as a look of sarcasm comes accross her face. *It was the

first thing I said to Firespray when he showed me what the Great

Brightness was, the use of gravitational pull for spacetravel is

taught in elementary schools on Earth.*

Alison gritted her teeth as a mission load of frustration comes

bubbling to the surface. *If the captain thinks I'm that incompitant

that I can't handle a fourhundred year old plan then he should relieve

me of my duties.* She finds it almost impossible to concentrate on

what she is doing as the floodgates of angry emotions spill into her

mind. *and if the captain wants to micromanage the entire ship he may

as well get rid of all the senior officers, but as long as I'm in

charge of flight control I'll run it my way.*

Trying to calm herself Alison closes her eyes. She's not sure why

or how the captains remarks set her off, all she knows now is that her

heart is racing and everything thayt has irritated her since boarding

the Grail is now weighing heavily on her mind.

Slowly thoughts of not having warp-drive in the next system deverts

Aliosns attention back to where it should be. *Will we have the power

to break free of the Great Brightnesses gravitational pull once we're

through it without warp-drive?*

Lt Alison Donucci