When Kendra approaches, Lei gets more agitated, and starts trying to push along one wall away from her on her rump. Lei stares at her retreating back as Kendra walks away, and then slowly reaches out to grab the blanket, once she is on the far side of the room. She pulls the blanket up over her knees, and nervously watches the crew.

Charlie takes a few short steps back, crouching down and putting her hands around her knees, watching Lei.  She smiles a bit, brushing her dark hair back from her eyes, easier when it's not partially caked in grease.  "Now then...you want anything else?  Water?  Little food?  Anything at all that I'd be good t'getcha?"

As soon as Geoff figures enough time has passed for her to be covered, he looks over to where Charlie and the child are. He nods lightly, seeing that the girl is covered up and Charlie is handling the situation well,and sighs as he leans against a wall. "We are so ruttin' humped it ain't even funny....but I ain't regrettin' the decision ta let them outta that there cage o' theirs at all. Funny, ain't it?", he mutters lightly, more to himself than anything.

   Still watching the tall, rough looking man and the other woman, Lei listens to Charlie's queries, shaking her head at each one.
   "Wh... where is this?"

She looks over at Geoff, shrugging a bit.  "We're doin' the right thing.  You get so far from the core, people start t'make up their own rules about the way things ought t'work.  Out here, where there's no law, showing kindness is bein' all we got."  Charlie smiled back at him, looking over to Lei again.

"You're on the Destiny.  It's a ship...we're out in the black somewhere, can't tell you rightly where...not on land, I can say that.  Where're you from?"

   "Destiny... ship? I..."
   Her gaze shifts to Charlie's eyes, and tears form in her eyes as she tries to answer the question.
   "It... It was. All white there."

"Shh shh...you're safe, hun.  Don't you worry."  Charlie scoots forward a bit, bringing up a hand and stroking back Lei's hair, smiling at her.  "All you need to know is that no one is gonna hurt you here, Lei.  Everyone is okay, everyone is safe...nothing bad is gonna happen here to anyone, kay?"

   When Charlie first reaches for her, Lei shies away just a little and hugs her legs in closer, but otherwise doesn't move. She lets her head fall fowards, burying her face in her hands and the blanket, and starts quietly sobbing. She didn't really understand where she was, or what she was doing there, but for now all the large scary people were keeping away from her. For now.
   She was sure it was only a matter of time before someone came along who wanted to do something to her.

"Hey, hey...you're alright."  Charlie looks down for a moment, pinching bridge of her nose and squeezing her eyes like she's trying to shake something off.  In her head, it's like someone just starting banging pots and pans together...right behind her.  She shakes her head, taking a deep breath and looking back up at Lei, giving her the best smile she can.  "You want us to find you somewhere safe to be?  Maybe a nice bed?  We're right here in front of the open rooms, could surely get you some place to lay for the night...."

   Lei lifts her head just enough to look towards Charlie.
   A room, not this one. Maybe there wouldn't be any giants staring at her there, or anyone else. Maybe there'd be something to hold the door closed, so she could hide in there alone...
   She slowly nods her head.

"That's what I thought hun.  Come on, you don't want to be out here in the middle of nowhere, do ya?"  Charlie stood up, putting her hand on the wall next to her and the other to her head, closing her eyes again.  Something like a wave just washes over her, making the punding in her head even louder.  She just needs some rest, she was already tired...it's probably just an adrenaline crash.

"Here, I don't know about there being open quarters...but here's a room you can use."  Charlie takes a few steps in the lower hall, cracking open the door that leads into her bunk.  "I don't use it, I sleep up in the engine room...all my things're up there, as it stands.  You'll be fine to be in here.  If you need anything, all you'd need to do is let someone know.  But...  Charlie shakes her head again, looking back at Geoff.  "Hey, can you...you know, keep an eye?  Somethin' fierce is coming over me, I need t'lay down.  All you gotta do is just be gentle, y'know?"

   Lei slowly stands, keeping her back to the wall, and her eye on Geoff and and Kendra. She lets herself be led towards Charlie's room.
   Once at the door, she backs into the room, and sits down against the far wall.

   ((Edit: Oops, forgot... To: Charlie's bunk.))
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Geoff looked over to Charlie from where he had been leaning on the wall, looking a bit worried as Charlie doesn't seem all that all right at the moment. But he just nods lightly and gives a light salute to her. "Sure enough, Charlie. I'll watch out for her. Like I said before, 'Gentle' is my middle name. You just go on and get some rest....", he said in a light tone.

"Yeah, she'll be...she'll be alright.  Just make sure...you know, she doesn't do anything...wrong."  Charlie's obvious a bit out of it, the exhaustion starting to hit her as well.  She starts walking, keeping a hand on the wall, possibly the most of what's keeping her balance.  "Make sure you let the good doctor know where she is, I don't want t'be responsible for missin' girls tomorrow."  She waves a hand at Geoff, slowly walking off, making her way back to the engine room...


--------->Engine Room 1

Geoff only nods as he looks after Charlie with a furrowed brow. She don't look right. Don't seem at all right as well. She seems more than a bit out of sorts. Maybe I should be tellin' the Doc about that too..., he thinks before shaking his head lightly and looking back towards the door of the bunk Lei was in. Charlie had asked him to watch out for her so he would. Besides, it wasn't like he would be much good for anything else at the moment...

Geoff did note the door to Charlie's bunk closing completely after a bit, as he had been staring right at it. He doesn't move or do anything about it though. He figures that the girl wants her privacy, he might as well respect that. He didn't give much of a dman about what the girl did so long as it wasn't in the realm of dangerous to herself, him, or anybody else. So he just continued to lean against the wall and listen and lok for any sign of trouble.

Kendra looks up from her book, a concerned expression crosses her face as she watches Charlie and Lei. Glad Lei, gets settled in a bunk, but Charlie doesn't seem right. Well who was, after all this.  She's probably just tired. She stands up, stretches and heads to her own bunk. Just going to get some sleep then, I'll head to the infirmary to check on the children.

Tate crawled cautiously into the room.  There was another man in there leaning against the wall and staring off down a hallway that Tate couldn't see.  He looked nothing like anyone Tate had ever seen before, he actually paused in his motion to stop and gawk at the sheer size of him.  Then remembering himself and how he had to get out of there he quietly crawled the opposite direction, following the wall down another hallway.  No one saw him.

-----------Cargo Bay---------------->

Kale stepped into the passenger quarters and glanced around, looking behind the couches and under the coffee table, "Geoff, did you see a kid go by here?" he asked urgently.

Geoff thought he had heard some movement from somewhere off to the side of him at one point, but hadn't seen anything when he turned to look. Figuring it was just his imagination, he went back to looking at the door to the room Lei's in. When the captan comes in and starts to search the room and then asks him about a kid, he shakes his head. "No, Cap'n, didn't see nobody come by here. I did hear somethin' awhile back, but I just thought I was hearin' things.", he said with a shrug, "One o' the kids got up and started wanderin' then?"

"The boys gone missin', didn' even see or hear him go." he stood in the center of the passenger quarters pretty certain that he wasn't in here. "Search the cargo bay, I'm going to check out the dining hall, and see if he snuck onto one of the shuttles.  Ain't safe for a little guy to be wanderin' this here ship." without further ado he walked quickly out of the room.

-------------Dining Hall----------------->

"Sure enough, Cap'n. I'll look fer him.", he said as he threw a light salute to the captain. He glanced shortly back at the door and then shrugged. He figured the girl must be asleep or something and she'd be fine without a chaperone for a little while. So he nods lightly as he heads out into the cargo bay to look for the boy.

---------->Cargo Bay
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Geoff walked into the passenger's quarters at a slow pace, looking back at Tate as he did so. "All right, Tate. Stay here for a sec while I get ya a blanket ta cover yerself with.", he said before turning to one of the empty rooms, not really knowing if they belong to anybody or not, and walking in. He quickly rummages around for a blanket and, finding one, grabbed it and headed back out to where he left Tate. He handed the blanket to Tate so he could cover himself up, knowing the kid was wary of physical contact.

Tate followed Geoff at a safe distance into the smaller room again.  He watched him curiously as he opened a door in the wall and rummaged about in it for a while before coming out with a blanket in his hands.  Tate carefully took the blanket from Geoff, cautiously still staying back from him, and wrapped it around his shoulders, grateful for the warmth.

Geoff nodded lightly to the boy and then shrugged. "Now, let's see. Ya hungry, kid? We got us some food in the dining hall if ya want. Hows 'bout it?", he asked with a questioning gaze. He really wasn't all that familiar with how to deal with children, but he figured they needed to eat like everybody else...