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Chapter 4: First Meetings
Summary: Ezner Shepard is always ready for a fight. Is she ready to meet her match?
Shepard stretched from her seat. The alcohol had numbed some of her senses. She hadn’t stopped drinking even when she was talking to Elionel, who hadn’t stopped chastising her for it.
“You have to stop drinking.”
“Not ‘till I’m dead.”
“At the rate you're going, you may as well be.”
Chapter 2: SSV AIN JALUT
Summary: SSV AIN JALUT was about to lose a crew member but open doors for Shepard. Will she take it?
SSV Ain Jalut wasn’t a big ship. More of a prototype stealth frigate that had focused its attention on patrolling around the Terminus system. Looking for criminals such as batarian pirates, to be exact. A crew of 24. 23 actually, if the Captain had anything to say about it.
“Can you repeat that, sir?” Shepard asked. She stood in the Captain’s office, sleek and modern. His metal desk encompassed only a corner of his room and the bed hidden away at the far back. A compact and small room fitting for any Captain. Captain Hendrickson wasn’t a bad man nor a very strict one. He was kind and genuine to his crew, the only exception being Shepard. He had a particular distaste for her. Not that she could exactly blame him, not with her track record.
“Have you gone deaf? Maybe military life doesn’t suit you,” The Captain bitterly responded. He placed the datapad on his desk. He was taller than her by just a few inches. It gave him the false sensation of being imposing. He continued, “You're being transferred to another ship. Thank heavens.”
Shepard grinded her teeth together. She knew if she kept it up she’d dislocate her jaw, “sir, I do not see good reason-”
“You have disobeyed direct orders. Not just once. Not just twice. In every goddamn mission,” the Captain bluntly stated, “I do not need a gung-ho trigger happy novice, who can’t follow a single damned word! Because of you we lost a boy’s life!”
