Sorry for the inconvience, Devon is around 11-12 years old. She's very young according to Trance. I wanted her character to be in her teens, but not as old as Trance was when we first meet her.

Rommie and Trance had then taken Devon to the med deck to run some simple tests on her. "How old do you think she is?" Beka asked Dylan, as they watched them leave. "She can't be more than twelve."

"She's eleven and a half," Trance called out to them over her shoulder.

"I was close," Beka called out to her and Dylan shot her a smile. "I was."

"This ship is amazing," Devon said, as she walked ahead of Trance and Rommie. "It's so pretty."

"Thank you," Rommie said, as they entered the med deck. "And this is the med deck."

"What goes on here," Devon asked, as she picked up some of the medical equipment. "Do you do torture here?"

"No," Trance said, as she took the equipment out of her hands. "We do not torture anyone."

"Oh, that's good to hear."

"Rommie, are you scanning her?" Trance asked her, as she came over to Rommie's side, as they watched Devon look around the room.

"She's of the age of eleven and a half. She's healthy, strong, very smart, and..." Devon knocked over a tower of equipment. "And very curious."

"Sorry," Devon said, as she kept looking.

"Trance, would you care to take Devon on a trip around the Andromeda to show her the ship," Rommie suggested to her. "Keep her out of trouble."

"Of course, Rommie," Trance answered, as she took Devon's hand. "Why don't I take you on a tour around the ship? I'll even show you the plants."

"They have plants here?"

"Yes, they do." They then left Rommie to pick up the mess that Devon had made.

On their way around the ship, they encountered Rhade. "Hello, Rhade," Devon said to him, as she looked up at him. "Why are you so tall?"

"Because it's in my genes," he replied as he looked down at the girl in front of him. "I take it that you're taking a tour of the ship."

"Yes, Trance is showing me around so that I will not get lost."

"That is a good thing to know." Devon soon had a smile on her face as Harper and Beka came up behind Rhade.

"There she is," Beka said, as she looked at Devon who shot her a concern look.

"I was not missing," Devon pointed out, as she shot a look back at Trance. "Trance was with me, so I could not have been missing."

"That not what she meant," Harper said, as he came up to them. "It means that we just missed being around your company, so we came to find you."

"Oh, I understand." She then ran a hand through her light brown hair. "It's a good thing to be missed then?"

"Yeah, some times," Beka said, as she shot a glance around. "So how much of the ship have you seen?"

"We have seen the med deck, the observation deck, and the hanger deck."

"Ah, so you've gone far."

"Yes, we have." Devon swished her tail around and smiled at them. "We now are going to look at Trance's plants."

"All hands to the command deck," Dylan's voice called out over the com.

"Sounds like trouble," Devon said, as she followed them to the command deck, where they saw her sun was failing. "What's wrong with it?"

"Everything is going to be okay," Trance said to her as she came up and held Devon. "It's nothing serious."

To be contined.