Editing Dale Arden (section)

===Term 2===
Perhaps calling the senior researcher a moron was too harsh, I was young, passionate, and used to speaking my mind.  The old moron was too stupid to be offended, of course, but his handlers saw to it that I was assigned to a small bio-research station to serve out my sentence for lack of politeness as a physician's assistant.  It was there that I met Joshua.  Even younger than me and so terribly, terribly earnest.  A quality that, I must say, he never really lost.  I did and do find it endearing.  On his end, I think he's always been captivated by my natural grace, beauty, and intelligence.  This is my story, and I say he is!

But I digress.  I was told that if I could just keep his little ship on the world for an extra few weeks, I could get off that rock a year or two early and advance my career in the bargain.  I had it half-way done too, a little fake bio-plague that would have kept them locked down in quarantine, but the it turns out that Josh's family hailed from the nobility of Arden.  Which just let's say my family name is no coincidence.  So of course I had to help him out.  I told him about the plot, and he was able to leverage the information into an early release for the ship.  We kept in touch since then, in our travels about the galaxy.

I never told him that I found out who was behind that little conspiracy, hacked their computers, and destroyed their financial records.  So naughty of me, not to mention highly illegal, but that delightfully earnest smile of his makes me want to help every time.  [1][/I]