Beverly's smile brightens, crawling across her face like a painter's brush across canvas. Lopsided, in some respects, but plenty warm and welcoming. And happy, as she has not been recently. She isn't yet up to her normal self and won't be for a while, but this is doing her wonders. She owes Deanna great deal, as counselor and friend.

"Would you? I'm not sure I remember that specific set of orders," she teases back. "And when you do, name your time and place and I'll be there."

She would do a great deal for Deanna and not just because she knows her counselor and friend would find a way to convince her for her own good. What Deanna offers her is peace of mind, support, a friend in this difficult transition. And shore leave? Well, she really would be a hypocrite if she denied herself that after all the years of nagging Jean-Luc, wouldn't she?