Bart walks up to her, "So as I see it. Des hasn't answered, so she may have run into problems. Doc and Sasha haven't answered so they might also be screwed. So our priority should be secure engineering and the bridge. Once those are secure we expand."

"So lets take engineering first. From there you'll be able to lock and unlock vents right?"

"Once you are there, I can go get mouse and Percy and take the bridge. From the bridge we can lock all the staterooms. Then you can direct the search of the vents. Maybe we'll even get lucky and run across more crew as we go."

"Thoughts," he asks?

"You don't want to know," Merinn sighs. "Do you want to go via the vent, or the regular way to engineering?"

JR