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[Enkidu]

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Sender Ident: Initiate Khan, Nesrin.
Subject: Twenty two hour leave-of-absence request.
Recipient: Keeper Raven, Sapphire.
CC: None.

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You route through the message terminal, unenthused at the organisational bedlam the Omega deployment has cast into the Battlegroup’s never-steady, oft-ambiguous chain of command, which, if the Nera-links read true, is steadily disintegrating around your ears. Between ambassadorial screaming, plaintive maintenance requests and grovelling logistical chiefs, your exhausted eyes flicker. Whoever thought that the illustrious job of saving the human race would be somewhere between jail time and a secretarial position at an adult daycare centre. Humph.

Cranking up the blue light settings in your monitor, you steel yourself for the next file. Come on Raven. Survive. There’s funner ways to slaughter yourself than paperwork.

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Madam Raven. Keeper.




As you’ve deduced already, Ma’am, I’m requesting twenty two hours, from the acceptance of this communiqué, to be sliced off my ouroboros cycle. Conditional is my free, undocumented utilisation of the X-shuttle marked Zero Quebec Oscar Hotel as a personal transport during my leave. If the vessel returns damaged after this duration, I will fund damages and submit to court marshal. If I violate my compact, I will submit to a court marshal. If I have not returned within twelve days, assume operative demise.

After vessel return, I request an all-up isolation hangar decontamination for Zero Quebec Oscar Hotel and radiographs to be placed within the gear bays and lower superstructure. The environment in which the shuttle will be operating is extremely hostile to Terrene hardware, and Terran pilots. I don't want my docking locks to give a deck rating brain cancer.

Secondly, enlist a pen-pusher to conduct this crap for you. With due respect, Keeper, you are going to die if you and Curator continue to directly process the individual concerns of several thousand people. Auxesia is vast, Keeper, and your child can breathe without you.
Delegate. Or cull us. Either will work.

I'm anticipating you have all the calculable questions my request was destined to evoke. So be it. I will answer as capably as I am able, Keeper.

I would strongly encourage you to approve my request, Keeper. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
I have no frigging choice.

Flight Initiate Nesrin Ezra Elhertani Khan.

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Jesus christ - she was curt enough to curdle milk. What exactly did you to her?

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