Love is hard to catch

[Laura C.]

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Encryption: High, specific decryption key required
Sender: Laura (special authorization verified)
Sent: 23:44 local time, 5th April 820; Miyako Spaceport Hotel, planet Honshu, Honshu system, Kusari
To: Trueno Benitez

*Laura appears on the screen with guilty face, the room behind her looks like her apartment in planet Honshu hotel*

Mi cariño! I´m so sorry! Really really sorry! I didn´t expect that you will take it so...deadly seriously...that you will alert everybody immediately...I even sent the explanation just thirty minutes later! Oh...I feel really terrible for what I did. Tell everybody who you alerted because of me that I really apologize! If they know who was the reason...and that it was just a bad joke. I must look really loco now there. So...I don´t know...buy them drink on me. Eh, lot of drinks. Or something... I will pay you that once we will meet. I really didn´t want to cause this. And I hope you found some excuse how to explain this to your padres. Trust me, I really regret it...oh...well...do you understand now why I fear I will harm your name during my visit? Because I´m able to do such a stupid things sometimes...uhm... Again, please forgive me.

*she pauses for few moments, looking unsure*

I´m not sure if it´s good time now to speak about my visit... But if you still have the courage to take me to Crete to be with you there...beginning of July sounds good. The base will be under holiday stage, so less supplies needed and so on. But...I hope we will see earlier...in less than almost three months. I miss you, really. And when you say your schedule is clean for next weeks... Can I hope for another visit on Honshu? But this time, you should let me know in advance so I could be there on time. Or some short meeting on Hawaii again? Or...there will be that company training, which will take place in Rheinland in next two or three weeks, so I can be quite near to Freeport 1. What you think?

*she scratches behind her ear*

By the way, speaking about work...I´m glad you support my possible promotion...but are aware of consequences? I mean...for us for example. Sitting most of the time on New Berlin or Miura...you can´t just go and visit me there, right? I still have time to think about it before I will give my final decision. But when director asked me what is my opinion right after he told me about that...I said no. Because...well, that would be for longer longer conversation. I...I should go to sleep, I have to get up very early again and go back to Okinawa. Just wanted to send you message with apology, hm?

*she seems to be sad*

Take care! And let me know how Catalina is doing, sí? I hope we will see soon.

*she waves then turns the camera off*

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.