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Side Sim: Arboretum

Posted Jan. 3, 2022, 9:52 p.m. by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) (Calé Reilly)

Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Side Sim: Arboretum

Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim: Arboretum

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Cai gave a chuckle and tossed the ball for her. When she was after it he glanced around to make sure no one was looking and then pushed into some of the plants looking for the network of tubes that supplied nutrients and water to some of the plants, he found them quickly enough and with another glance around began rerouting the contents and then digging a medium sized one up.

By the time Frigga was back for him to toss the ball again he had his tube in one of the water areas cleaning it and a few scattered fragments of computer and wire in his possession. He measured the ball against the tube and seemed satisfied.

“Now…where would we find some duct tape…” he said looking around then tossing the ball before heading towards the supply and cleaning store.

Frigga kept running back and forth with the ball. She was starting to get the feeling that this human pup was more like her mommy than the patience she worked with. So she dropped the ball and laid down next to where Cai was working and waited while he wandered off again. She’d learned when Alexis got that look on her face it was better to just wait.

Willow shook her head again. “So that was Cai.” She said as if this was both explanation and apology. “I’m not sure the botanists will be quite as forgiving of him damaging through their plants”

Willow and Cai

“Does he like being on a star ship?” Alexis was curious, at 17 she had just graduated from the Academy and was leaving to serve on the Hathaway. She wondered how other teenagers saw it. Alexis had been eager to learn more, do more, to feed her mind. Nothing else had mattered at the time.

Bonner, AMO

Willow seemed to consider her words very carefully a moment. “Well…things are better than they had been but considering he was re-hueing the walls of his bedroom black yesterday I would say not entirely no. However, things back on Earth weren’t going too well…three schools, a few misdemeanours and an unfortunate incident where he hacked the school network, stole the math final and spray painted the answers onto the wall of the gym building the night before the exam…let’s just say I’ll take a black bed room.”

Willow and Cai

Alexis nodded, “Compared to that I would too.” Alexis couldn’t empathize with the boy. She loved learning so the idea of going through several schools, trouble with the law, giving away test answers! “It seems like being on the ship has been a little better? I would never paint my room black, but I’d put bulkheads in place of windows.”

Bonner, AMO

“He…gets bored easily,” Willow said as if by way of explanation. “Oh goodness don’t give him any ideas.” She laughed. “I’m glad to see things settling since you managed to deal with that particularly troubling experiment we discussed.” She said. Her tone was light and conversational.

Willow and Cai

It had been a long time since Alexis was ‘bored’. She’d learned when she was very young to find things to satisfy her mind and stop from being ‘bored.’ She never relied on anyone for that. Mostly because what they wanted to do was not interesting to her. She wasn’t even sure what a ‘regular’ teen would be interested in. Children was not her area of expertise and so she had nothing to offer by way of that. Alexis considered Taylor’s last statement and then nodded. “I am glad they have settled.” She hoped it stayed that way. It had been long enough for someone to find the shuttle Soulis had taken, the not knowing bothered her to an extent but not enough to go asking. “I am immensely excited to resume my duties in medical. I enjoy medical research and intend to continue, but…” Alexis wasn’t sure how to put the feeling into words. That even though she didn’t always show it, she loved being a doctor. “I know I am not the most…expressive person…but I am extremely grateful to you, Cmdr Myqian and Cmdr Walker to have this opportunity back.”

Bonner, AMO

Willow smiled as they moved, “we are delighted to have you back in medical. No expression of gratitude necessary, besides the important thing is that each crew member has the opportunity to grow and develop how they want.”

Willow Taylor
CO

Taylor seemed to understand what Alexis meant, so either she understood Alexis or Alexis clearly expressed herself. Alexis wasn’t one to dwell on such things (at least not before she met Solomon. She didn’t think it was a bad thing, but different for her.) Alexis suddenly slowed for a few paces and sighed, waving her left hand slightly before resuming her pace. “I don’t know what to do with it, it’s not what it appears.”

Bonner, AMO

Willow glanced at her and matched the pace. “Oookaaaay…it’s not a Dimond but rather an andorian moon stone?” She asked. “How so?”

Willow Taylor
CO

Alexis took a deep breath and looked around. “It’s part of that troublesome experiment.” The ring was more than just a ring and after the woman from intel, that she’d made the deal with, had spoken to them over the comms from wherever she was, Alexis just didn’t trust to talk out in the open. She didn’t know how else to say it to Taylor. She shouldn’t have said anything at all, but Taylor had been…the most supportive and personal with Alexis out of everyone on this ship…excluding Solomon. She was horrible at the game of spooks. She was only supposed to do research not be dragged into it all.

Bonner, AMO

“Oh.” Willow said as she felt the area above her clavicle pull slightly uncomfortably. She frowned and rubbed the area. you idiot think about what she just said. a small voice inside her said and then she turned her head again to look at Alexis. “Oh.” She said again with a tiny bit more inflection. “So Kane didn’t buy it.” She shook her head, hair swaying as she did. “It’s always a nice gesture getting given an heirloom ring, but you know…it’s not always everyone’s cup of tea. When I got one…my fiancé’s grandmothers. All I could think of was that ring belongs to someone else. He marriage sucked…so if I wore it would I be stuck in a similar situation. Bad joojoo sort of thing.” She nodded as if she got it and gave Alexis a meaningful look.

Willow Taylor
CO


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