Mileina Vashti

It's been very tense here lately. What with one thing and another... I've been helping Papa down in engineering, but it's really a lost cause. I've been helping salvage a few parts, but it's lucky we have a new design half-built. He's sent me off to have a break now, so I was going to go and get something from the mess hall, but I can hear arguing down there... I think it's Mr. Erde and Mr. Lockon. So I went to go do some studying instead.

He's been going off on people a lot lately. It's not unreasonable-- what with Mr. Doctor and everything, everyone is stretched a little bit thin, but I wish I could do something to help...

Mr. Seiei's been looking a little sad as well. It's a little hard to tell with him, but I think Papa might have told him off. He hasn't been down in engineering as much as I expected.

I just hope everyone feels better by Christmas. I worked so hard to decorate, but in this state, the mistletoe is going to go completely unnoticed by everyone... I'll just have to make sure I get everyone excellent presents this year!

It seems as though the argument stopped suddenly, so maybe I'll go and see how Mr. Erde feels.

[ She wasn't scared, she really wasn't scared! It was just dark, and running under high lockdown was very stressful, and there were strange banging noises, and it was almost worse now that Miss Trinity had shut down all the cameras so she didn't have any idea at all what was going on in Mr. Erde's room, and her papa had been yelling at the crew to find out what in the blazes was going on-- but she was a Mature Young Lady who wasn't afraid at all.

She didn't want to bother Papa and Mama, not when they were so busy, even though she knew that she could go to them about anything at any time. Besides, she had to show them that she was mature and helpful! Mr. Seiei had suggested she talk to Mr. Stratos, and since she was very sure he wasn't busy and he had been so kind before, she was now standing outside his room, knocking on the door. ]

Mr. Stratos? Are you in?