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petite brunette who liked to wave her hands around as she spoke
in a pleasant, high-pitched voice, and then she handed him a
tablet. “You press ‘start’, and then you need to find the
locations, key in the positions and codes, and send it to Major
Karr when you are done. You have fifteen minutes. Immediately
after, you are to go down to the evac tube, suit up, put together
three items needed for EEVA…”
    Jamie mentally recalled it was Evacuation for
Extravehicular Activity but that’s about all he could recall.
    “…and I’ll come down and grade you on your
suit, equipment, and ability to follow protocols.”
    He nodded and pressed ‘start’. “Thank you,
Lieutenant.” He stared blankly at the tablet for a moment unable to
read the map or words. “Get a grip, Jamie.”
    A crew member laughed at him as he strode
past. “Just don’t fuck up the captain’s safety rating, sir. Good
luck.”
    Relief filled him, not over the words but
that there was another male on board. He flushed recalling now that
there’d been a lot of males, he had just panicked. He looked at the
tablet screen again. “Excellent, I can read again.”
    Fifteen minutes appeared on the tablet. He
had to go to E deck, section Green, corridor Eight. He moved
quickly, climbed down two levels, studied the map on the side of
the wall, headed to Green, and Eight. He found a safety port,
recorded what it was, and the code. The next place was cargo. That
was easy to find. He had five minutes. He ran to the ladder and
climbed up, decided it was the quickest way, but when he reached
level four he couldn’t reach Red because of some sealed hatchways
flashing ‘orange’. Orange was no go. There was no one around so he
checked the route and headed back, running out of time. He paused.
Should he get to the last location or go direct to the evac tube
no. 8? He’d get to the tube on time, but his tour would be
unfinished. He checked the route map and saw the code for the
safety valve he was supposed to record. It might not be correct, or
part of the test.
    Jamie headed to the last location, recorded
the code and pressed ‘send’ before picking up a key-like object
with his name on it. He took it with him to the evac tube. As he
entered the tube he waited a little impatiently for hatches to
open. The instructions had specific details for closing them but
also clear pictures. It became clear that a three tiered system for
all processes existed, and was standard, on most military rangers:
hard copy on durable papir, soft copy usually tablets and Ebrains,
and a virtual holo system that tapped into the Aryan implants. To
his left was a small GELpad with marker indicating that the virtual
system was “off”. All newbies evidently had to use hard copies
first. Now that he was inside another tiny, rectangular room full
of equipment lashed to the walls or floors, he checked the
instructions on the suit attached to the wall. It had been made
especially for him but, despite the good fit, he found it bulky as
he started on the three pieces of equipment. He hadn’t quite
finished when Jennifer cycled in. She tapped at her head and smiled
at him. “I’m resetting the virtual system.”
    Jamie decided to use the hard and soft copy
versions to get around the ranger. “I was late in the tour.” He
didn’t like to make excuses so just pointed out the obvious
instead. He saw her grin.
    “I’ll check your suit and then, while I
inspect the first two pieces, you can finish the third.” She moved
up to him.
    He stood, a little nervously, while she
examined the suit. “Did you check to ensure this room had O2?”
    Duh. “Yes.” The specs came to mind, all
military rangers usually had up to seventy percent of space inside
depressurized. His eyes locked on to hers, and then followed her
movements, her hands. Did she know? Was she aware of how stiff he
was, every muscle tight in fear? Not fear of females but fear of
being prey again.
    In a chirpy voice, she