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[frontierbashir]

Should I be expecting him to try?

We're a long way off from that. I'll simply look at the peripheral blood first.

[strove]

He's been better about it recently.

[She realizes that this makes Stephen sound worse than he is, but he has his moods.]

But that's a relief. I don't think we'll need to worry about replicating it for a while yet.

[frontierbashir]

I sense a story behind that.

To be quite honest, I'd like to avoid anything as invasive as a bone marrow biopsy.

[strove]

We've all changed in the year that we've been here.

[Stephen has become more humble, at least with regards to her. It probably helps that she got a literal glow up by six years to help out a bit.]

I'll agree on the marrow biopsy. But sometimes things can get pretty desperate back home.

[frontierbashir]

Well, hopefully things won't come to that.

The limiting factor right now is me, considering I don't have access to the equipment I need. I'm going to take a guess that our people don't have a covert laboratory with the type of advanced equipment I'd use to analyze a blood specimen.

[strove]

Nope. I want us to have one, but it's going to be a matter of saving up, or stealing the supplies to build one ourselves.

The latter might be more feasible.

[Clarke doesn't have any quibbles about "breaking the law" in this world because money is stupid.]

[frontierbashir]

[Oh this is getting dicey real quick.]

I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with that plan.

[Julian does not feel that stealing expensive laboratory equipment upholds Starfleet values, despite his good intentions for the equipment.]

[strove]

Can I lie and say we paid for it?

[Because she'd ask Loki to do it.]

It's something we need. You know that as well as I do.

[frontierbashir]

I know.

[ He hates this. ]

Is there no other way? No other grants we could apply for? Do things like that even exist?

Although my lack of any credentialing here would be a hindrance to that...

[ He really hates this. ]

[strove]

Loans exist, but I don't think Stephen and I can take out any others in our name.

But I'll look into legal avenues.

[She'll try.]

[frontierbashir]

I sincerely appreciate it, Clarke. Thank you.

[ Moral crisis averted for now. ]

[strove]

Fingers crossed.

[She has her doubts that it'll work, but what the good doctor doesn't know won't hurt him.]

[frontierbashir]

[ She should meet Garak, they both feel the same way. Poor Julian. ]