Dokka said before leaving the bridge,"Signal condition alert,stand down from battle-stations." He made some hand signals to Rose and said to the Haen,"Let's go to the briefing room, if you want to talk about the Four Sisters." "I need to talk to all four of them." She seemed amused. They came into the briefing room. Dokka said to Rose,"Recall Snowflake." Rose said, "Right. All FOUR of them." Rose got on the comm system. Sub-Commander Zeelob came in and said, "Looks like I got the comm-system back on-line right in time!" Haen said,"Excuse me for a moment. I need to fetch Syyree. Be right back!" She disappeared in plain sight. Rose said,"It's done! Lime's back in her...room." Suddenly the Haen and Syyree were in their midst. A moment later, Snowflake teleported in with a loud pop. She blinked at the Haen and exclaimed,"Wow. She's almost as tall as grand-mother! Yo, Toxic!" Toxic bounced on her toes and giggled, as the Measure slid in and stopped. She growled,"Well...it's a whole stinking family reunion! We just need ol' mom and there we are!" Rose said,"Neblae is feeling a bit dizzy. She'll monitor from the Mallorri ship." She made a hand sign and Dokka nodded. He turned on the Haen and said,"If you have something to say--say it!" Haen said,"I have received disturbing news about how untrained the present iteration of the Four Sisters are, and I wanted to test them for myself." Dokka snapped,"It is NOT your place to test ANY of us." Rose said,"So far these untrained women have defeated Kali of the Druaga, faced the Great Enemy in Sub-space, retrieved one of the possessed from same Enemy and gained actionable intelligence of the Great Enemy's homeworld four levels of sub-space from here. We recovered one of the Race of Abel and found one living here. Some things NONE of the Galactic Species have done in the history of the universe, unless Syyree was gravely misinformed or just lied to the Measure." Syyree looked shocked. "YOU PEOPLE DID WHAT? That is unbelievable!" Rose said,"Not at all. We are exceptional individuals who are greater than the sum of our parts when we strive towards a common goal. Also...Neblae is a valued part of our crew, and we don't appreciate your caviler attitude, even if you are feared in the Naga worlds." Haen shrugged. "An instant of pain and several hours of shame might teach your little brown girl to be more attentive." Rose confronted Haen and exclaimed,"YOU might need to be more attentive! While you were talking, we teleported a twenty-five ton ANTI-MATTER warhead onto your starship!" Haen narrowed her eyes and asked,"HOW? The sister of air has been here since I've been and you haven't said ANYTHING to her in the Nunera system!" Dokka said,"ALWAYS have alternative methods of communication. I signed to Rose,'Put bomb on Wind' and she talked to her daughter,Lime,the REAL Sister of the Wind, over the Cyclops network. Lime ported to a Mallorri ship, borrowed a warhead, ported it to your ship and made it back in time for Snowflake to borrow her power to teleport over here, where YOU assumed that SHE was the real deal! Snowy is the Fifth Sister, not the forth." Haen burst out laughing. "We learn more in defeat than victory! Well played! I am humbled!" She bowed to Dokka and said,"Some of my contemporaries would go berserk ,seeing me bow to a human." Syyree muttered,"I feel like fainting." She plucked at Haen's pant leg like a little girl. Measure felt strange seeing her older sister acting like a little girl. Haen patted Syyree on the head like a mother and murmured,"It's all right." To the rest she said,"You have questions--ask them! We'll answer if we can." Dokka and Rose looked at each other. Toxic asked,"If you is lizard, why you have boobs?" Haen laughed. Dokka put a hand on his face and tried not to swear. --To be continued!--