Posted March 14, 2020, 3:15 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Kiama Naim ((A) Chief Science Officer) (Silke Fahl)
Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineering Officer) in Side sim- Holosuite date
Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Kiama Naim ((A) Chief Science Officer) in Side sim- Holosuite date
Posted by Ensign Kaia (Engineering Officer) in Side sim- Holosuite date
Posted by… suppressed (6) by the Post Ghost! 👻(snip)
Kaia shrugged. “A little. I took lessons, but I was never very musical. I can certainly try, though,” she said with a small grin. She took the small instrument and settled in a half-seated position up against the wall, testing the strings in her paws before strumming a short melody. Her playing was simple, but from the way she handled the instrument, it was within the realm of imagination that someone with notable talent in it’s usage could make some beautiful or fun music.
For a moment, Kiama watched as Kaia played, but it wasn’t long till she closed her eyes to focus as much as possible on the music. While she listened a soft smile spreaded across her face.
“If we were near Galdor, I would take you to a concert.”
Kaia, Engineer.
Blinking a couple of times, Kiama looked at her and said, “I’d love that. Thank you. I hope we’ll get close to Galdor one day.” Without thinking about it, she moved closer to Kaia and gently wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
~Ensign Naim, Science
Kaia purred a little. “It may be a while, given that we are in the wrong quadrant for that,” she said with a laugh. The tiny ensign slipped out of the grip of the much taller humanoid and went to the nearest doorway. “This house has, if I remember correctly from the program, the front room which is used as a living/dining room combination, a kitchen and food preparation room, a storage basement, two bedrooms, a hallway, and a lavatory.”
Kaia
“True, but thanks to the wormhole it doesn’t take nearly as long as it would otherwise. No 70-year journey,” Kiama said with a soft smile; only then realising that her comment might actually be like pouring salt onto a wound and hoping that it would feel like that for Kaia. Rising to her feet, she followed Kaia to the doorway, wondering what a kitchen and all in her culture looked like. Tilting her head slightly to the side, she asked, “It’s probably a stupid and ignorant question, sorry, but what is the difference between the kitchen and the food preparation room?”
~Ensign Naim, Science
Kaia nodded quietly. At the question, Kaia’s eyes widened. “Ooh, it wasn’t two different rooms. One room is the kitchen and food preparation room. That makes sense, right? ” She giggled slightly, looking a little bashful. They stepped into a bit of a hallway. “Each house built like this is different, because of the building around live trees thing. You don’t choose where the trees are.”
“Oh, okay,” replied Kiama with a soft chuckle, feeling a little stupid. “That does make sense. As does the fact that no two houses are exactly the same. I really like that you integrate the forest into your homes like this.”
The hallway had a door to the side, and the soft sound of Kiama’s shoes tapping on the wooden floor was not accompanied by any other sounds, Kaia’s soft paw pads not making a sound on the wood. Kaia stepped through the doorway and they entered the kitchen.
There was a wood-burning oven, made of a dark metal. Stumps in the center of the room were topped by a stone slab, and a squareish object was the ice box, Kaia explained.
- Kaia
Kiama lightly brushed her hand over the stone, feeling its texture and temperature. Looking at the oven, she said, “This makes me think of a couple of novels I got introduced to while I was at the Academy. They all took place hundreds and hundreds of years ago when people on Earth traveled by horse-drawn carriages and cooked on ovens like this.” Another thing it made her think of was the time of the Occupation of Betazed, but she didn’t want to think about that now. So she pushed those memories to the back of her mind.
~Ensign Naim, Science
“In the city we have more advanced kitchen technology, but here in the outskirts it’s just wood burning stoves,” Kaia explained. She looked around the kitchen for a bit, then shrugged and led Kiama back out to the corridor.
“That is so fascinating,” Kiama mused as she looked around once more and then followed Kaia.
A little further, another door opened into a stairwell traveling down. “Just a subterranean storage area. I didn’t actually create the matrix for that area, so we can’t explore it…”
Kaia
“That is perfectly fine,” Kiama replied and for a moment her expression darkened as she said softly, “I’m not a big fan of subterranean places or caves anyway, to be honest.”
~Lt.jg. Naim, aCSO
Kaia purred slightly, then opened the last door. At the end of the corridor there was this door, then a staircase leading up. “You’ll like that,” she said, gesturing to the stairway. The room was fairly simple, with a wide hammock slung up between two walls and a cabinet of sorts against one wall.
Kaia, Engineer
“Oh?” Kiama replied with a smile before climbing up the stairs. The moment she could see everything in that room, her face lit up even more and a soft, happy sigh escaped her lips. “How wonderful! Sleeping in a hammock sounds so romantic and must be very relaxing!” she beamed. Kiama then turned around and looked around more closely while letting her hand trail over the hammock.
~Ensign Naim, Science
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