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side sim - Dinner with the Songz's

Posted Oct. 30, 2022, 10:40 p.m. by Civilian Sair Songz (Counselor) (Lindsay B)

Posted by Commander Shedda Mal’athar (Executive Officer) in side sim - Dinner with the Songz’s

Posted by Civilian Sair Songz (Counselor) in side sim - Dinner with the Songz’s

Posted by Commander Shedda Mal’athar (Executive Officer) in side sim - Dinner with the Songz’s

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A look of surprise passed over Sair’s face. “You know what? I really like that idea. It would be a more casual social opportunity without too much pressure to mingle if people just wanted to be there for the atmosphere. I would be happy to do something like that.”

Kel looked amused as she sipped from her mug. “And here I thought I’d have to work to convince you to go,” she said before shifting her attention to Shedda. “She’s been unusually shy around here. Very unlike my daughter,” she said, her eyes glinting with humour.

~The Songz, Family

Shedda sipped at the drink contemplating. “I think I understand how you feel, Sair. I fought for this position. I wanted it. To be here on the Manhattan, serving in the Delta quadrant. I was quite sure of myself, but then I got here. It is a bit overwhelming. Cpt Cochrane has really created something unique and special out here. I felt like I was intruding. It took me awhile to find my place. I found myself holding back, I still do at times. I have found that the feeli g of being outside of it all was all on me though. The crew didn’t see it that way. Also, the captain is quite meddlesome though. He doesn’t let us hide away.” The last was said with a grin and a finger to her lips as I’d to say ‘don’t tell’. “It’s one thing that makes him such a great captain.”

Shedda

“I’m still getting to know him a bit, but I would agree,” Sair said softly sipping her drink. For her it wasn’t that she felt like she was intruding on something, but that she hadn’t quite found the pathway in. It had been strangely elusive and, well, lonely. Getting to know Shedda was helping and her mother here had been good, not the least because she had brought Koro with her and it felt at least like a bit or normalcy. There was something reassuring in the small routines of the day necessary with a small child and it at least grounded her in the present.

Speaking of which… Sair moved over to the sofa and set her cup on the far side from where Koro was building on the floor. “It’ll be interesting to get Koro settled into the childcare centre. I admit I haven’t really had the chance to meet any of the other parents. We’re all usually coming and going from shifts.”

~The Songz Family.

“When I started this journey with Maava I was required to arrange child care. I remember a lot of advice being given. One was to be prepared that life revolves around our children. Their social life and needs and wants and etc seem to take over. They told me one of the best things was the parents night. They planned movies, dinners, art classes, lots of different things so that the parents had actual plans of where to go and what to do. Sometimes with the kids and sometimes without. They do the same Herr on Manhattan.”

Shedda

Sair nodded, feeling a strange resistance she couldn’t quite place or understand. It was something to ponder over lately. She leaned over and stroked Koro’s head and the boy looked up at her with a rather tired grin. “Almost bedtime for you, my sweet. It’s time to put the blocks away. When you’re done would you like a cuddle?”

Koro eyed the blocks and then his mother and nodded. “Okay,” he said before debating the block one more time and then conceding to putting them away.

Meanwhile Kel had turned a chair from the table around to face the others, the warm cup in her hands. She had been watching Sair was a practiced eye. “The child care centre at the hospital was always fantastic when Sair was little, though she was never content to stay there. She knew more interesting things were going on elsewhere so would beg me to let her come up on the wards. I did indulge her when appropriate more times than I perhaps I should have, but the other staff loved having her around. I think it was something about the youthful interest and excitement,” she said with a fond smile.

~The Songz Family


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