We had found no Sa’arm in the M-class system we had jumped to, but when we tried to generate a jump bubble to leave the system capacitor two had ove...loaded. The ship had still managed to form the bubble, but the engine room was in tatters. Private Truit would spend over twenty hours in a medical pod after the overloading capacitor sent shrapnel through the engineering compartment.This second reminder of the problems in the ship’s construction had the crew livid at the Confederacy. All of them. It took a while to work it out with her and break the idea to her the right way, but she was O.k. with it, after her crying and talking sleepless nights about it. She eventually really wanted the end result very bad, our own child. She talked about how hard it would be for her to work herself up to do it, and didnt know what to expect when it was happening. We were both not in the right state of mind I think because she was thrilled of the chance of having kid(s) with my DNA, instead of. I walked up to his desk and said, "You wanted to talk to me?"Yes I did, Alex. Have a seat. I wanted to know when, and how, you learned to do the mathematics you showed me." The 'when' is simple. I learned mathematics from a young age. When others were learning to add, I was working in what you are now teaching. When others were learning to divide, I was doing differential and integral calculus. Even our library here has some advanced texts. You would be surprised what can be found in. She's sat across the round table, right opposite. I catch a glance, luckily he doesn't as he's busy boring one of the others alongside. We make our way towards the city centre, stopping for a few more drinks along the way. End up in a club, everyone else getting into it but I feel so shy and reserved now - while she's dancing. We've gotten closer in the last two years, a good solid friendship. She even asks if I'm ever going to ask the redhead out. I hesitate until the matter is taken out of.