Log Date:
	11/1/98

Log Cast:
	Katya Reynar, Tance Vokrim, NPC orderly

Log Intro:
	Having tried to attack a shuttle pilot when the man wouldn't let him
leave Ballybran on his craft, Tance Vokrim has gotten himself confined to
the Short Term Care ward in the JPF Infirmary. Determined to keep the 
disoriented Crystal Singer from being a danger to himself or others, and
just as determined to keep an eye on him until Singer Rosa Scardino can
be brought in to take CS Vokrim back out to the Ranges, Quinn Malloret and his
medical personnel have kept Tance under light sedation and restraints, not
trusting him to try to escape their custody when they're not looking.
	Tance's temperamental encounter with the shuttle pilot, though,
has happened on the tail end of a young recruit trying to make an overture
to him. Apparently moved by Tance's current condition, Katya has tried to
visit the Singer in his quarters, and witnessed his attack on the shuttle
pilot. The young woman comes looking for him in the Infirmary not too long
after he is confined there....

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Katya walks into Short Term Care looking for medical assistance.
Katya has arrived.
Katya Walks in slowly and quietly seeing Tance

Tance Vokrim is, indeed, in short term care; he lies restrained in one of the 
  biobeds, staring dully up at the ceiling overhead. There's an orderly on 
  duty in the ward, typing away at a computer terminal, and he looks up as 
  Katya creeps in. "Can I help you, recruit?" he inquires.

Katya says "Do you remember who I am?"
Katya says "I came to see you the other day, when you tried to get off planet 
  to see...Jade was it?"

The orderly strides closer to Katya, repeating firmly, "Can I _help_ you, 
  recruit?" And the young man moves to put himself between the young woman and 
  the grizzled Singer lying on the bed.

The grizzled Singer on the bed, in the meantime, stirs faintly, his dulled 
  brown eyes moving slowly in the direction of Katya's voice.

Katya says "I'm...I'm just here to see Tance Sir..."
Katya says "Is...is that alright?"

The orderly considers this, looking the young recruit up and down, before 
  saying briskly, "Well, I don't have any orders against it, but you should be 
  advised that CS Vokrim isn't exactly coherent. Try not to excite him. We've 
  had to keep him under sedation."

Tance has turned his shaggy head towards Katya and the orderly now, and the 
  faintest of frowns darkens his weathered features. His gaze looks only 
  half-focused, but there's a faint glimmer of cognizance in the brown regard.

Katya steps slowly towards Tance and sits beside his bed

The blond-haired, blue-eyed orderly keeps an alert eye on the recruit, before 
  withdrawing to his terminal. But even though he's stepped across the room, 
  the man's attention remains quietly divided between his work and the 
  patient, as well as the patient's visitor.

Katya smiles softly at Tance feeling so bad for him and wishing she could do 
  something for him
Katya reaches slowly to touch Tance's hand "You do remember don't you?"

Tance's hand is under restraints, and it stays there, even as the rumpled 
  Singer gives the recruit a blank dark look. "Remember... what?" he mumbles 
  in a thick, slurred voice, his brow furrowed under his tangled grey-streaked 
  bangs. "Do I... know ya...?"

Katya Pulls her hand away slowly "I came to see you, the day you tried to go 
  to Shankill"
Katya says "My name is Katya, Katya Reynar"

"I don' 'member you," the Singer mumbles, the slight furrow still remaining on 
  his weathered brow.

Katya says "I understand..."
Katya says "You may not remember me but...i'd like to be friends..."

Tance's dark eyes drift closed for a moment, then open again, confused and 
  muzzy. He peers up at the young woman by the bed, the bafflement growing 
  stronger in his bewhiskered countenance, as if Katya had proposed that she 
  spraypaint herself pink and tapdance through the room. He doesn't answer her 
  immediately. When he does, all he can manage to blurt is a hoarse, "What?", 
  as if he couldn't quite believe his ears.

Katya says "I'd like to be friends with you"

"Wh..." The Singer swallows, trailing off and wetting his lips for a moment; 
  perhaps he's thirsty. Then he rasps out huskily, "Whatcha wanna go.... 'n' 
  do a damnfool thing like 'at... girlie...?"

Katya says "Why? Don't you want to be friends with me?"

Katya's bright green eyes catch his

Catching Tance's eyes isn't that difficult, if nothing else because his head 
  is still pointed in the same direction, but those brown orbs remain only 
  half focused, glazed and drowsy. A faint confused frown remains in place on 
  his bearded face as he mumbles dismissively, "Won't remember yah. No use 
  botherin'... crazy old karker..."

Katya says "Oh come now I'm sure that's not true"
Katya places her hand over his "You remember Jade right?"

The prone Singer frowns more visibly at this, stirring uneasily under his 
  restraints, his grizzled head turning slowly from one side to the other. 
  "Jade," he echoes, the single syllable a groan of pain.

Katya says "I'm sorry I won't talk about her"
Katya Smiles softly "Do you think Espra would mind...if you had some ice 
  cream?"

"Jade," repeats Tance, more loudly, seeming not to hear the young recruit's 
  suggestion.

In the meantime, the orderly at the terminal looks up sharply at Tance's 
  groan, his blue eyes turning alert and attentive, and he calls over in quiet 
  but assertive tones, "Recruit, please don't excite him, or I'll have to ask 
  you to leave."

Katya says "I am sorry sir"
Katya Stands
Katya says "I'm going to leave now Tance...maybe...I can see you tomorrow?"
Katya kisses Tance softly on the cheek and leaves
Katya leaves the busy emergency room.
Katya has left.

[End log.]