Title: More Carefully

Author: greatsarcasmo

Category: Drabble

Rating: K

Warnings: None

Disclaimer: All of this belongs to someone else, I'm just having a little fun and I'll end up just as poor at the end of it as I was when I started.

A/N: The seventh of several drabbles that were my fic beginnings written 4 years ago – and probably my least favorite of the bunch. My brain tends to work in spurts. And, hey, we all have to start somewhere. More Carefully

Venryzin. They'd stopped after the whole Hirogin/hologram fiasco on a planet circling a star nearby the red giant for supplies and safe orbit during repairs.

She'd let her husband talk her into a single night away from her engines. Lying beside him, looking up at unfamiliar skies, she'd had a passing thought. Something she wanted. When he'd pointed out the star, it had seemed natural to make a wish.

A normal family life.

Now, trying to haul her considerable girth from the briefing room chair, she reflected that she really ought to choose her wishing stars more carefully.