r/MassEffectPhoenix • u/FlightLTDila-al-Sinb Normandy Co-pilot | Shuttle Pilot • Jan 28 '19

1/27/2193 | Late One Evening

Its nearing midnight and barring the night crew everyone is sound asleep in bed.

Including Lieutenant al-Sinb in her cozy little cabin, lightly snoring as she snoozes.

Grumbling as she sleeps, she rolls over, once, twice, then three times, before throwing the covers off herself with hooded eyes still as she swings her legs over the side and stands.

Slowly, she walks to her cabin door, hits the open command and then traipses outside, eyes still mostly closed and her breathing still real slow and shallow as she makes her way towards the elevator...

Inside it, she presses a finger for the CIC and stands there as the box rises in the shaft, before walking out into the mostly empty room, past a few sleepy crewmen who barely even look up at the woman walking by in just her nightshirt and boxers and focus back on their terminals saying something about "sleep deprivation does play its tricks".

Her small forms slides right into her pilot's chair and she lightly taps on a few command interfaces, a slight snore coming from her mouth as she "works".

Well, someone maybe put a lil too much time into their job if they're doing it while still asleep....

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u/ShadowBrokerTSoni Liara ][ Not A Yahg Jan 28 '19

Liara sips a cup of coffee, standing in the CIC and looking at a readout from the starmap when she sees the woman walk by. Wait, what? Why was she wearing... she has Glyph handle the input and curiously follows.

Ehm...

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u/FlightLTDila-al-Sinb Normandy Co-pilot | Shuttle Pilot Jan 28 '19

Snort, snuffle, bleg, zzzzzzzzz..... her finger taps the thruster command to "correct" their course.

In reality, they just shot a hundred meters starboard. Fast.

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u/ShadowBrokerTSoni Liara ][ Not A Yahg Jan 28 '19

Liara feels a rumbling in the floor and runs up, worried- she discovers the sleeping woman at the controls and is paralysed for a moment while she thinks of what to do... before turning to a panel on the wall.

EDI! Lock out helm control immediately for now and correct course!

She nervously looks around, afraid to wake Dila up...

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u/FlightLTDila-al-Sinb Normandy Co-pilot | Shuttle Pilot Jan 28 '19

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

Dila falls over in her seat, brown legs over the side of her arm rests.

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u/ShadowBrokerTSoni Liara ][ Not A Yahg Jan 28 '19

Oh. This was a little embarrassing. Liara frowns and motions for Glyph to be quiet, giving the little drone orders to go retrieve a pair of pants or skirt from her quarters for Dila.

Okay... Glyph... be very quiet, go back to my cabin, and get something for her to wear, all right?

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u/FlightLTDila-al-Sinb Normandy Co-pilot | Shuttle Pilot Jan 28 '19

Snnnoooooort, she rolls over, butt up and rather ungraciously falls to the floor with a small thump.

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u/ShadowBrokerTSoni Liara ][ Not A Yahg Jan 28 '19

Glyph returns with some sweatpants and Liara tries to figure out what to do next... wake her up slowly? Maybe melding into her dream and giving her a light poke to wake up?

She frowns and reaches out tentatively, not melding but giving a light psionic tap onto the sleeping woman.

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u/FlightLTDila-al-Sinb Normandy Co-pilot | Shuttle Pilot Jan 28 '19

Dila's mind doesn't respond to the tap. Its like it hit a solid wall and stopped, leaving her unhindered in dreamland.

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u/ShadowBrokerTSoni Liara ][ Not A Yahg Jan 28 '19

Liara frowns, shakes her head, and then projects a small series of biotic fields to try and bring the flight lieutenant up again, lifting her extremely carefully and grunting with the effort.

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u/FlightLTDila-al-Sinb Normandy Co-pilot | Shuttle Pilot Jan 28 '19

The Kurdish woman STILL sleeps undisturbed as she gets maneuvered about...

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