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Fort Ramsey; Ontario System; Republic Of Liberty
Virginia unlocked the front door and entered a small suite on the top floor of the Alliance building at Fort Ramsey. She had her laptop bag, a navy suitcase, and her guitar hanging from a strap across her back.
Instinctively, she locked the door behind her, leaving the keys in the turned lock - all the outside world could do now was kiss her ass.
At the door, she immediately kicked off her shoes, set down her luggage, and began unpacking - a routine she'd practiced in the Navy - in less than half an hour she had the basic furnishings of the apartment surveyed, clothes unpacked and put where they belonged, the bathroom stocked with toiletries and medications, and four packs of MREs for 24 hours stacked on the kitchen counter.
Within an hour she was settled in - but what next? For the last days, weeks, she had been on her toes and on her feet, there were all sorts of arrangements to be made, but now she could only wait.
A large cabinet of projectile and laser guns caught her attention - she had always loved guns, and not just for the chance to shoot them - the internal mechanisms and designs fascinated her as well. In less than three hours she had the weapons in the cabinet disassembled, examined and put back together again.
After lunch, though, she needed something to do. Virginia sat down on the simple sofa and opened her laptop on the coffee table and connected to NeuroNET.
She let out a long sigh as soon as the systems connected to the database at Roanoke - her inbox was overwhelmed with service requests, mostly for temporary release from duty for family reasons, there were also several disputes, complaints and other matters.
Virginia reached into her case for her reading glasses and set about dealing with her agency. She hated military paperwork, but at the same time it could always keep her busy for long hours.
As the hours passed, it began to get darker outside the windows - that Fort Ramsey space town simulated the cycle of day and night.
As evening approached, Virginia's thoughts began to slow down as there was no adrenaline in her system to force her to stay awake, and her body decided to make up for the sleep deficit from the past week. It was enough to make her wait more than a minute for the files to be sent, and even the fact that she was still sitting on the couch, that the blue light from the screen was shining in her face, that she was still dressed in her uniform, didn't stop her from subconsciously closing her eyes and falling asleep.
