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    What We Live For, chapter 1

    Kathryn Janeway
    Arriving by transport on the planet Volan III
    Volan System, within the Demilitarized Zone

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    ”Well, I don’t know. I think Gallist had a point about negative space. Take social interaction for instance: Isn’t it just as important what we say as what we don’t say?” Kathryn asked as she got up and opened the compartment under her seat to get at the luggage she’d stowed there.

    ”And I’d say there’s certainly truth in that, I just think he takes it a bit too far – gives it too much emphasis, if you know what I mean. After all, you can’t actually judge anything by what’s not there alone, while you can judge it by what is there. Take your example for instance. If someone simply says nothing, assuming auditory communication only, what do you have to go on? You can make a blind guess based on whatever relevant past experiences you may have available to you, but that’s really about it, isn’t it? Now, on the other hand, if someone says, for instance, ’I wish the weather were nicer today’ – even with something as trivial as that, you could draw far more of substance from that than you could with simply silence, couldn’t you? True, it’s all still largely guesswork and supposition, but it’s like the difference between having to survey one solar system looking for a particular element as opposed to an entire space sector.” Chell replied.

    His father had been the captain of a survey vessel, that Kathryn knew from earlier in their conversation. She laughed amiably. ”When you’re right, you’re right. I concede the point.” She swung her pack around behind her and fastened it around her waist.

    ”Why thank you, Kathryn. And may I say, it’s been a pleasure talking with you.” Chell replied with a thoroughly genuine smile.

    She smiled to him and nodded. ”Likewise.” She said as she turned to exit with the other passengers, leaving Chell to retrieve his own luggage.

    She’d never yet met a Bolian who didn’t love to talk, and the one she’d been seated next to for the last five hours had been no exception. The latest topic had been spatial harmonics, as it applied to interior design. Now, she’d be the first to tell you that she had a pretty good handle on the principles of spatial harmonics – she’d even read a paper by Gallist, a Bolian artist who’s field of expertise could most closely be compared to the art of feng shui in Taren culture. The article had been published in the Farringdon, a preeminent journal in the field of spatial physics that she’d subscribed to during her academy years. As far as what made a room look good though? She’d honestly never really given it all that much thought until now. Even when she’d been reading Gallist’s paper, she could only truthfully remember thinking about it in terms of scientific theory rather than what those theories had actually originally been meant to be applied to. Head in the clouds, her mother would have said. She would have said she had aspirations of going a bit farther out than that. A trip to the Vasray nebula, preferably aboard a fully equipped science vessel, for instance, still ranked fairly high on her to-do list in life.

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    1. Here’s hoping that KATHRYN not only finds her wayward sister PHOEBE and all is well which i doubt ,but she lets loose and find more than friendship with MARIAH.continue please.liking what i’ve read so far.pps thanks

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