They nodded and, hearing the call for help in putting the anti-matter engine to sleep for the time being. The AME made a good initial source of energy, and a necessary backup, but was too expensive, fuel-wise, to run the whole shift.
“Cap, can you come to epi?” the mystagogue whispered through command comms. “It’s not super urgent, but…”
They frowned and toggled to command on their own mic and murmured, “Heard,” in return before smiling once more to the rest of the engineering team and walking station-north to epistemics.
-As ey walked, ey pulled out eir PDA and tapped to open the glimmer monitor.
-389Ψ -(Glimmer keeps rising)
+As they walked, they pulled out their PDA and tapped to open the glimmer monitor.
+389Ψ.
+They stopped walking and started jogging. They worked to keep their expression level, doing their best to look merely busy and not panicked. After all, seeing a captain run through the halls wasn’t uncommon…
+(Glimmer keeps rising)
(Mantis critted, but revived, talks of hearing lots of mites)
(Throughout, memories of Abby, plurality becoming more evident)
(Finally, near the end of the shift, botanist caught trying to anchor a second prober, found by telegnosis)