It's a clear night on New Caprica and the stars are out in all their glory. A lack of much man-made light makes the sky brilliant, a glittering expanse.

Adia was supposed to be on a date tonight, but her boyfriend had to cancel. Late night at the water treatment plant. She didn't complain. She headed down to the sand dunes to watch the skies alone. The constellations were foreign, but it still reminded her of Leonis's open sky, a backdrop to its endless plains.

She lies on a blanket, staring up at the sky, her PINpoint a comforting lump in her jacket pocket.

After speaking with Lichtenstein in the Nexus, Adia visits the library on her ship, currently grounded on New Caprica but still used for its lab facilities. The books are saved for posterity, but almost never used since everything is available electronically.

She finds a copy of Aging at the Molecular Level, but then it's time to work, and that evening she has plans with a man who she is just starting to think of as her boyfriend. He doesn't know about the Nexus -- nobody does.

The next day she is finally able to slip away again, and she returns to the Nexus, book in hand, looking for Lichtenstein.

Adia hadn't meant to stop visiting the Nexus. It was something she was learning to enjoy, in fact, a respite from the daily tribulations of her cramped, inter-stellar life.

And then her PINpoint stopped working.

She wasn't certain why, but she suspected that it had something to do with the cylon virus that infected some of the fleet and nearly allowed a Centurion invasion. Which thankfully didn't succeed, but a few days later, when she tried to use her PINpoint, gobbledygook appeared on the screen and she didn't go anywhere.

The same thing happened the next few times she tried, so she buried it in the bottom of her foot locker and tried not to break down. She hadn't realized how much she had relied on that little device -- her portal to another, better universe -- until it no longer worked. The worst part was, there was no one she could tell, no one who could try and fix it. It was just one more secret she had to keep.

Life went on. She continued to work in her lab and slowly befriend others. Battlestar Pegasus, long thought destroyed, returned to the fleet, and some very lucky people were reunited. Adia was not one of them.

Then one day, while she sat on her bed and read over some research, she heard something beep in her foot locker. She opened it, and digging through her personal mementos, carefully retrieved the source.

Her PINpoint. It was working again.

She didn't hesitate to use it.

((OOC: Just an explanation for why Adia has been gone, which was in reality due to the mun being away and then super busy. ^_^ But Adia is back! Please feel free to contact her!))

On the way to mess hall, I found a strange place. The people there call it the Nexus. It's where a bunch of different realities meet. People go there to ask questions, or sometimes to look for someone they know. I didn't see him

I wish I had taken something from there, as proof. I mean, anyone here is going to think I've lost my mind, but at least I'd know for sure that it was real. This last month has been a real mindfrak.

I met a woman named Victor. She's a student, and an artist. She said she was from Earth. It doesn't sound like the Earth some of us are looking for. But it sounded nice. I also met a vampire named Arabella. She was surprisingly kind. Not at all like the myths.

Maybe I'm still in shock and hallucinated the whole thing. But it felt so real. I felt more alive there than I have in the last month.

I should talk to Maggie and Seth again about that project the Quorum put them on. Before they assign me to something random. At least I'll be with friends.

I wish I didn't miss him so much.