: Posted by Ensign S’Raal Cran Moonshadow (Doctor) in "Lunch" with S'Raal
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: : : : : : : : : S'Raal stretched his spine a little in the chair. "Now the business is sorted, tell me something about yourself. I'm impossibly nosy about the people around me and my own life is an open book. Some find that a little intimidating, but I'm guessing you won't be one of them" S'Raal chuckled "How about we start with an easy one... the ships about to blow and you can only save one thing from your quarters other than yourself... what do you grab?"
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: : : : : : : : Tresha thought for a moment, "My father's first tool kit, he gave it to me when I went off to Starfleet Academy. We would toil for hours on an old fuel engine he'd aquire from a scrap merchant or some other mechanical mystery he'd pick up somewhere....he was always taking things apart and making something new. We'd spend hours in his workshop, late into the night..." She got lost in nostalgia for a moment as memories flitted through her mind. She smiled then, a warm smile, not her usual perky one but a private smile that bespoke her warmth of family. "What would you grab?" she asked, coming back to the moment.
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: : : : : : : S'Raal hesitated before answering, then smiled as he spoke "A picture of my mate T'Pon. She would say that it would not be logical to risk my life for a replaceable artifact but I think secretly she'd be pleased at my sentimentality" His eyes seemed far away for a moment but then he returned to the conversation. "So what was the first thing that you "engineered" with your father?".
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: : : : : : "Oh...that's so sweet, where is your mate now?" she asked, truly interested.
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: : : : : "She's at Starfleet Medical at the moment" S'Raal said with a sparkle in his eye " She's involved in research and secretly, she's waiting for a chance to see if we can get posted to the same ship".
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: : : : : "Oh well...we built a low tech hover dolly for moving the heavy equipment first!" she laughed thinking about the old clunker they had to repair more ofthen than they used it. However...it still worked when she left for Star-fleet, one of the only things that still did. She made a mental note to call home soon, her mother must miss them both badly.
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: : : : : S'Raal smiled "That's a pretty ambitious project to start on, I've heard that antigrav is notorious for letting you down at the most inappropriate moment." He paused and then continued "Okay next question... have you ever named a vehicle, piece of equipment or the like?"
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: : : : Tresha laughs, "the dolly's name was molly and yes....she was very tempermental! What about you? Any names for your scalpuls or instruments?" she smiles broadly, completely relaxed.
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: : : S'raal grinned "Molly the dolly, yes , now there's poetry and no mistake." He reflected for a minute "I haven't named anything medical myself but I've observed many of my compatriots doing the same. One guy I trained with called his old scalpel Excalibur after getting it stuck in a bone once. I had to do some research to understand the reference but it made sense once I did. I haven't actually had any medical equipment long enough to myself yet to feel I've bonded with it but I'm sure the day will come. Do you have any suggestions for me?".
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: : Tresha grinned, "just whatever comes to mind, whatever feels right I always say." she took another sip of her drink. "I can't imagine life without my tools to be honest."
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: "Nor can I" S'Raal agreed, "I had a nightmare once that involved doing neurosurgery but my hands had turned into two large saws and everybody was saying "Hurry up, we're losing him!" Took me a week to stop checking out my hands before surgery!".
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: S'Raal paused and reflected "Okay, serious question, In your job, what was the time when you felt most helpless and ineffective? That's a deep one so feel free to ignore it if I'm pushing the boundaries of our emerging friendship too much" S'Raal smiled.
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Tresha thought for a moment..."That's a tough one, Doctor, seeing as I have 7 different sets of memories...I can think of many times," she responded honestly. I guess the worst was when a bulkhead collapsed in Engineering on the USS Tralfagar and a ensign was trapped under it and bleeding out, the ship was under attack and the only other person in engineering was a young bajoran girl and no matter how Landra and the Bajoran girl tried...we couldn't get to him." Tresha sighed. "Just one of the many tradegies one of my kind sees, each host has at least one horror story."

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