I got up and got ready for my Watch. When I entered the bridge I saw an unfamiliar face. "You must be Red," the man said and I was confused, "I'm Buffer." "Um, nice to meet you, Sir, I'm bella tracy, the new CE," I replied. "Yea, ET told me." Now I was even more confused. "Why did you call me Red? Sorry, sir." "That's the name you got here," Buffer told me, "And you don't have to call me 'Sir'." "Okay," I sighed. I had the same nickname that my brothers call me and there was me thinking it wouldn't happen. I thought I would get rid of it here, but that didn't seem likely. Well, it was a pretty obvious nickname considering my hair was copper red like my twin brothers Gordon.
"So… did I miss anything?" I asked, trying to start a conversation. "We boarded an FFV and we're towing it to base, ET and Jaffah are still on it," Buffer told me. "Okay."
We fell silent again. But it wasn't an awkward silence. Throughout our Watch Buffer and me occasionally held a little small talk, but not much.
I was glad when it was over, because I was really hungry. I quickly went to the galley. It was the middle of the night so there was no one there. I looked in the fridge and grabbed something to eat. When I was done I went back to my cabin and tried to get some more sleep, but I wasn't really tired. But I didn't really have anything to do so I just rested until breakfast.
After breakfast I was walking in a hallway. "Red!" I heard someone call and stopped to turn around. Charge was walking up to me. "Yes, sir?" "No need to be so formal." "Okay." Charge took me to show me all the electronics and the communications stuff onboard and what I needed to be aware of, basically everything I needed to know on this ship, a more detailed version of ET's tour, a lot more detailed. It was a lot for me to take in. Especially when he took me to the engine room as the last part of our tour. Tomorrow I probably wouldn't remember half of what Charge had told me, but I tried to memorize as much as I possibly could in such a short time.
During our tour, Charge also told me that we had picked up a marine biologist from Bright Island. She was suffering from some kind of poisoning, or so it seemed. She needed to get to a hospital as soon as possible.