Subject: Grail: "The Great Brightness"; "A Word in Edgewise" Part 2.
<OOC: Sorry for the short post, but I can't go farther than this.>
The Captain, ignoring what had been said and ignoring his first and second
officer,
assembled teams to save Kerestia from destruction.
"The meeting has lost its constructive purpose," she could hear him reason
to himself. But
as far as Kait was concerned, the meeting held no constructive purpose in
the first place!
She couldn't voice this thought because it would be a response to the
Captain's thoughts --
indicating that she had been blatantly reading his thoughts, which would
not only offend
him and others, but would invite a reprimand.
A few people started to leave and the cohesion of the meeting was dispersed
by the
Captain's final decision... though it had been apparently his first. The
Captain had decided
from the very beginning that he was going to violate the prime directive,
and it angered
Kaitlyn more that he did so in spite of his first and second's objections.
It was wrong, and Kaitlyn would be the last person to stand for it. She
wanted to
explode, to scream, to run out the door and begone from the place as soon
as possible, but
instead she calmly called out, her hostility veiled thinly, "Mr.
Terrakian!" She refused to
acknowledge his ill-fitted captaincy. "As this is a direct violation of
the prime directive,
and not applicable to order 30, I hereby refuse to offer any assistance in
this endeavour."
Kaitlyn wanted to leave, but she had to wait for Epic Terrakian to respond
to her
proclaimed position as a conscientious objector.
"What Ye Sends Forth Comes Back To Ye
So Ever Mind The Rule Of Three
Follow This With Mind And Heart
Merry Ye Meet and Merry Ye Part...."
--From The Wiccan Rede.