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What We Live For, chapter 2

The part of her that enjoyed dabbling at times in sociology was interested to have an opportunity like this.
A short time later, they arrived at Mariah’s home. ”Mariah Hanley, authorization WG619.” She spoke when they got to the front door, the door beeping and opening at the command. ”Come on in.” She offered Kathryn amiably.
Kathryn followed her in. The significance of Mariah having a security passcode for her own door wasn’t lost on her. Most people didn’t have one and, if they had any security on their door at all, usually just wore a small key charm somewhere on their person that functioned in a similar way to the comm badges she was used to wearing in Star Fleet. Those were easier to get around with certain types of scramblers than a security code was though, especially when also keyed for voice recognition. From the, admittedly sketchy, reports she’d heard, as well as the first hand reports related to her on her way here, there was, in effect, a small gorilla war taking place in the DMZ presently. If forces from one of the Cardassian colonies were to attack and land troupes in the city, Kathryn had to imagine a locked door that couldn’t be circumvented with a scrambler would seem an asset to someone with a family to protect. She wondered if perhaps there were also security fields installed as well. She knew well enough that people in conflict zones during the war would often have them. Given what she’d learned of Mariah’s history, Kathryn guessed she probably did as well.
A little boy ran up and hugged Mariah’s legs, she laughed, Kathryn smiled fondly. ”This is Casey, my son, in case you were wondering.” Mariah informed a touch dryly.
”Who’re you?” Casey asked, letting his mother’s legs go and looking up at Kathryn with curiosity and just a little bit of a dare in his voice.
”Kathryn Janeway, pleased to meet you.” She offered her hand for him to shake.
Not missing a beat, the boy stepped forward and shook it firmly. ”Casey Hanley, good to meet you too.”
”Kathryn’s a new friend. She’s here looking for a wayward sister of hers and I offered to put her up for the night.” Mariah offered her son by way of explanation.
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Finding her sister might not be the only problem KATHRYN has ,seems like MARIAH is not being truthful about who she really is.Beware of strangers bearing gifts in the form of friendship.thanks