Posted Jan. 25, 2021, 11:26 a.m. by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Lieutenant Kiama Naim (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Friends and good food -what else does one need?
Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Side Sim: Friends and good food -what else does one need?
Posted by Lieutenant Kiama Naim (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Friends and good food -what else does one need?
Posted by… suppressed (2) by the Post Ghost! 👻(snip)
The rush of emotions she was sensing from Faye, was beginning to be a little overwhelming fro Kiama and she started to feel her eyes filling with tears. Of course she could put more of her mental energy into enforcing her mental shields, but she wanted to feel Faye’s emotions. It wouldn’t lessen them for Faye, but never having experienced anything like that herself, it helped her understand a little more. For a few moments she let it all sink in silence before whispering, “I don’t know what to say other than that I’m glad that he’s alive and safe now. All that and everything you have been through … it’s a lot to handle and work through. Be gentle with yourself on your own road to recovery, yes? I don’t want to lose you.”
~Lt. Naim, CSO
Faye nodded. “I’m working with the counsellor. I do anyway, but especially now I’m getting extra attention,” she said with raised brows and amusement. But it was good. She was glad for it. “And thank you. You’re a good friend.”
“I’m glad and you’re most welcome,” Kiama replied sincerely.
“But let’s get back to curry or else we’re never going to eat,” she said with a smile turning back to work on combining everything to make the raita.
~Faye Calloway
“Yes, we should,” Kiama chuckled softly and returned to her own cutting boards to finish preparing the broccoli and then the tomatoes. She still had a lot of questions, but they could wait. She was just glad and grateful for everything Faye had already shared with her. It meant a lot to her. Moving the conversation to a potentially lighter subject for now, after a some moments of silence, she asked, “I know you love gardening, but I don’t think we ever talked about other things we like to do in your spare time. And I’m wondering, what else do you like to do?”
~Lt. Naim, CSO
“Hmm, well, I do a lot of yoga,” Faye said as she stirred the ingredients together. “My therapist on the Atlantis suggested it as a part of my recovery and it’s been really great. It was good for building physical strength but also good mentally. Other than that, I like listening to music. I have a weirdly eclectic taste,” she said with a grin.
“Oh?,” Kiama looked up and grinned. “How so? What do you like to listen to?”
Faye chuckled. “Oh gods, well. There is a lot from Earth’s twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Some of it my parents listened to when I was growing up, and some I found myself. But I love Bajoran folk music, and have been known to listen to Klingon Opera too. But the Earth music is varied in genre. All kinds of rock, classical, punk, a little old school rap and hip hop. I mean, it’s out there,” she said with a grin.
“What about you? What do you do?”
~Faye Calloway
“Huh,” Kiama exhaled softly, looking suddenly confused. “You know, I just realised that I’m actually not sure. There are things I do because I know they are good for me and I don’t hate doing them. Like running and swimming. As child I had to take dance and music classes and never enjoyed it. So since I was allowed to stop, I never even gave any of that a try again. And over the years I’ve tried a lot of things. All kinds of sports and art related things mostly. I think I enjoyed most of them or at least liked them okay, but I somehow never really stuck with anything. I never even noticed till now. How weird.” Shaking her head, she pushed the vegetables aside and reached for the onion. She hated cutting those, but they needed them so why keep avoiding it?
~Lt. Naim, CSO
“Toss me something else to chop,” Faye said, happy to work and chat at the same time.
“I love swimming too. I used to do running and all kinds of kick boxing and stuff, but in recent years I have gone for calmer exercise. Though if I’m really angry, It’s always better for me to take it out on a punch bag than a person- so says experience.” She grinned, but it was also a lesson that had take a long time and tender mercies of the Romulans to work out.
“What sorts of art stuff did you try?” Faye asked curiously.
~Faye Calloway
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