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Post by Nick Blaine on Aug 20, 2009 11:11:42 GMT -6
Blaine had gotten used to living with not much sleep. Such was the life of a pilot who had to keep an eye on the ship in hopes that the ship was okay. He had gone to sleep around midnight last night.
He awoke early. He changed his pants and put his Vest on. He normally slept shirtless, no mater how cold it was on the ship. Nick exited his room and took a deep breathe. First night on this sip went smoothly. He normally had no problem adjusting to a new bed or ship. He'd been doing it for years. He entered the cockpit and sat down. He took the autopilot off so he could manually control the ship. He liked to rely on his own piloting skills to fly ships. He felt nervous keeping auto-pilot on at all times. It was only the necessary times that he pt it on. Like the obvious ones: eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom.
His hands loosely gripped the yoke. Blaine loved to look out into space as the zoomed through it. It was definitely a beautiful sight.
About ten minutes after waking up he heard Solomon getting out of his room. He didn't look into the cockpit. Blaine decided not to greet him because e seemed busy. After Solomon walked farther down the hall he began talking to someone. Sounded like Magdalen. She was up early. At least Sol and himself got up early because of their responsibilities.
He turned his head back out the window to the quickly passing stars.
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Post by Solomon Taylor on Aug 20, 2009 12:45:07 GMT -6
Freshly washed and finally clothed, Sol headed back out of the showers and down the hallway. He paused for a moment at the door to the cargo area, picking up the faint smell of smoke. Caden was up, he realized with a sigh. He would really need to get that guy to quit as soon as possible. There was only so much the air filtration on the ship could cover.
He headed down the main hallway and through the common area once more, sending a wave towards Magdalen as he passed her on the couches. He ducked into his room for a moment to put away the pants he'd been wearing before his shower, and then popped back out and turned into the cockpit. He was relieved to see Blaine was up. "How are things going so far?" he asked the pilot, resting his hands on the back of Blaine's seat as he peered out the windows. All clear, it seemed.
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Post by Nick Blaine on Aug 21, 2009 11:36:33 GMT -6
Blaine tried to turn to Solomon but he had rested his hands on the back of the chair so he couldn't. "Things are going fine. Engines are fine, life support's fine, communications are green. Yup, all seems well." He nodded and turned on the auto-pilot, "But I'm off to have some breakfast. I'm starving."
He stood up out of his chair and wondered if there was any food he could make himself or if Olive was making some. "Wait, is Olive serving breakfast?" He wanted to make sure.
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Post by Solomon Taylor on Aug 21, 2009 14:40:45 GMT -6
"Good to hear," Sol nodded. "You'll have to give me a crash course in what a lot of that stuff on the board is in case I ever need to take over for you for awhile. My background knowledge in that stuff is fairly rusty at best." That was an understatement. 15 years ago, he hadn't even officially graduated from the military academy, and most of his ship training had been in the smaller, one person shuttles and fighter planes.
Then he shook his head at the question about breakfast. "Olive isn't up yet as far as I know. Feel free to poke around and see what you can find. There are some dry goods in the closet in the hall, cereal-types and the like."
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