"Sito"
written by Greg
Lieutenant Sito Jaxa

Lieutenant Sito Jaxa moved with a delicate precision.
Each movement was slow, each one was deliberate, and the sheen of sweat that covered her face showed that it was not easy to maintain. The white gi she wore was padded but was otherwise unremarkable as it hung loosely off of her lithe frame. The door to the room opened with a quiet swish, but she ignored it as she kept her movements even and timed.

“Did you hear?” A female voice sounded from behind her and to the left.

“Depends on what I was supposed to hear Niya.” Jaxa smirked as she kept moving. “Carol is supposed to be already shacked up with someone I think, and Taylor is trying to get a still working for something he calls moonshine, but I was not scheduled for anything today.”

“Taylor is doing what?” The Betazoid moved into Jaxa’s field of view with a quizzical expression. “Isn’t that sorta against regs?”

“Rules change so much over the years,” Jaxa stopped her exercise as her features shifted to a grin. “I have not been a security officer for eight years.” She shrugged. “I think it is only against regs if it is involving an attempt to intoxicate a Kyralian Razor Beast on night watch while gambling.”

She chuckled and walked over to a nearby bench to retrieve a towel she had tossed there earlier. She heard an exasperated tone from Niya.

“So that was the big news?” Jaxa started to wipe her face with the towel. “They will get caught sooner or later, then they will be smacked in the head and told not to be so stupid next time. Something will be placed in their files, and the case will be closed. Taylor is too good to get hit with anything beyond that.”

“That wasn’t it,” Niya sounded like she finally remembered why she was here and seemed to appear right next to Jaxa. “We have been diverted.”

“What?” Jaxa brought down the towel a bit.

“I don’t know the specifics but the order went out and command staff were called to a meeting.”

“Interesting. For that bit of news, you get a donut.”

Niya shook her head and gave a chuckle, “I wonder why you weren’t called.”

“I am hardly indispensable” Jaxa shrugged. “They don’t need me around for everything.”

“Lieutenant Sito,” Captain Utex’s voice seemed to fill the room. “I need you in my ready room.”

Niya arched an eyebrow with a smile creeping across her face and simply said, “You were saying?”

“He probably wants to talk to me about the course correction I did last night that almost put us into that asteroid.”

“You what!” Niya blurted in shock.

Jaxa moved to the wall computer and pressed a button, “I’ll be right there Captain.”

“Oh my god!”

“I’m joking.” Jaxa chuckled as she started out with the towel around her neck..