Shore Leave: The Bar

Sometimes friends are "old" for a reason....

Luckily, Zephyr interrupts. She grins when he sits.

Oi, it wasn't a sober endin' fer many of us, Zeph. Take a seat. We've got tea an' Fleetwine. How is yer sister?

Still feeling disturbed by Moira's hostility toward Nic, Cass greets Zephyr and introduces him to her old friend. As Moira switches gears back to her usual self and inquires after Zeph's sister Vega, Cass throws Nic a look of apology and tries to understand exactly what about him has caused Moira's aggressive response. All she can see is her old pal.

Cass doesn't acknowledge the eyeroll. Whatever the beef is between Moira and Nic, Cass doesn't want to side with either. She just wants everyone to get along. Recent events had demanded more than her fair share of diplomatic effort; she'll be damned if her shore leave will make a similar demand.

She takes another sip of the Fleetwine. "Yes, how is Vega?" she asks, a slight edge to her voice. She'd managed so far to avoid thinking too much about the sobering incident in Zephyr's cottage last night, but now she's finding herself feeling a little prickly about it.

Oh she's fine, she can take care of herself. I, on the other hand, am not fine. Remind me not to drink just any old thing that Stone hands out.

Moira raises her eyebrows.

Well, ah'd've phrased that about seven better ways. Why do ah get tha feelin' we'll be off shore leave soon?

Once again, Cass itches to hit the comm badge she doesn't have, this time to ask someone what's going on. Instead, she taps Nic on the arm with the back of her hand. "Slide over. I need to get out of the booth."

Cass nods and heads toward the front door of the bar. The number of people coming in has slowed, and she stops one man briefly. "Any idea what's going on?"

The man continues further into the bar and Cass frowns at Nic. "Cadets? Trying to steal a hover transport? That's sort of next-level career suicide."

Alira walks into the bar and looks around. She sees the crew that she met before as well as Nic. She notices that they are looking ready to go and approaches them.

Hello folks. Just a heads up, security is pretty serious about this lockdown. They are chasing a woman behind some crimes here, and she is armed.

Cass remembers seeing this woman at Zephyr's cottage last night; she'd come in with Moira and Zeph, hadn't she? Noting that she's wearing a comm badge from resort security, Cass says, "We didn't quite meet last night. Commander Shawna Cassano, acting captain of the USS Potential. Is this incident related to the one involving the cadets who tried to steal a transport last night?"

Alira salutes.
Nice to meet you Commander.
Yes it does. The cadets were drugged by a woman with something that made them open to suggestions. Although, from my interaction with him, it wouldn't have needed much.
I identified the woman from check in logs and was with Lt. Mars when he tried to apprehend her. Since she has a phaser and I am not on his staff, he thought it better if I sit it out. I do have a security comm badge though, so you can communicate with him

hey Nic. I had the job interview. I think it went well, but I think the Commander would know better than I would.

Alira chuckles.

Yeah it has been busy. I go on a wild goose chase helping a cadet and then ended up catching the wannabe thieves. Then all this security stuff.
Plus meeting you and all these folks as well.

Cass frowns a little at Alira's comment about the job interview, but she's more interested in the young woman's connection with resort security. "Yes, thank you, I'd like to speak to Lt. Mars."