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Side Sim: Arboretum

Posted Jan. 6, 2022, 11:53 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

Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Side Sim: Arboretum
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Alexis shook her head. “It cost 1 credit for five of them. She has more. I just keep them out of reach or she would leave them scattered all over the ship.” She seemed distracted but in actuality she was considering Cai. She nodded in agreement. “I know where we can go.” Maybe Solomon was rubbing off on her, but the way Taylor was holding her arms made Alexis think that a drink might be in order. She wasn’t sure though, but even Alexis knew that wanting to talk somewhere else meant Taylor wanted privacy.

They took the lift to deck 3, forward starboard section. Alexis approached the door, the sign read Lt. Solomon Kane, CSO. The door slid open, lights on full, and she stepped inside. All the windows were closed and the quarters were empty. “Please have a seat, Cpt. I don’t really know about making a drink choice, or what all is in the cabinet, but would you like something or from the replicator?”

Bonner

Willow followed quietly, she hesitated a moment outside the door to Kane’s quarters. She didn’t want to think she was intruding on the lives of her officers, but she out that aside and stepped over the threshold. “Tea…would be great thanks.” She said looking around for somewhere to sit. She lowered her self onto the nearest chair and suddenly seemed very aware that she was in her workout gear. She gave a rueful smile.

“You know, they always tell you not to show weakness in front of your crew. But I wonder if they mean don’t be mortal. Who wants someone fallible leading them.” She said.

Willow Taylor
CO

Alexis requested the tea from the replicator and brought it over to Taylor, then she sat down across from Taylor with her own glass ice water. “I don’t know, mortality and fallibility is at the core of human innovation. It’s what has driven all of our most notable people. Confidence does not mean you aren’t fallible, just that your certain you will discover something, just the right or wrong path is the question. Something is still discovered, still learned.”

Bonner

Willow nodded her thanks for the tea and wrapped her hands around the mug. “True. Just…how many captains let teenagers blow stuff up around the crew.” She shook her head and taking a sip from the tea looked around again.

Alexis tipped her head to the side thinking, “Picard did. Wesley Crusher caused all kinds of problems on the Enterprise D. He had to help fix them too.” Alexis wasn’t sure if it was her place to say or not but she did anyway. “He’s bored. Not like normal kids. His mind is hungry and constantly analyzing, constantly devouring information. Sometimes the only way to make it stop is to do more, learn more, experiment more. You know what he made was brilliant. Yes the ball caught on fire but if I had to guess, he miscalculated the moisture ratios. He made a mistake. It happens, but for those of us that are smart it’s really important to know that we can, will, and are allowed to make mistakes.” Alexis shrugged, “My mom always said the hardest thing about raising me was the right rope she walked between allowing me to be me, and having faith I wouldn’t blow anything up too much and where to draw the line.”

“I…” she sighed. “I know he is. I’ve tried…for years. He was in…advanced classes, experienced tutors…access to labs and then there was an accident. Like today a mistake that caused repercussions we all had to live with. He isn’t interested in the academy…he’s just…bored and rebelling.”

“I take it this is a secure space…if you wanted to better explain…” she nodded at the ring.

Willow Taylor
CO

Alexis looked around. It was pretty stark. By the bedroom door there was always Solomon’s latest sketch, piles of PaDDs on the desk, and then Frigga’s toys. “That old Earth saying: locked up tighter than Fort Knox? Well, Fort Knox is jealous.” Alexis glanced at the ring. “It’s…Solo....Lt. Kane…he made it. It’s a real diamond, real gold, but he put a micro-transporter scrambler in the setting so I couldn’t be beamed off the ship. There is also a radiographic isotope in the crystalline structure so he could track me if I did end up off the ship.” Alexis resisted the urge to fidget with the stone and turn it back on. “If not for this, I wouldn’t be here. It was…it is a prop, a tool. It is exactly what it looks like, but it also isn’t.”

Bonner

Willow considered the words. “So…an excellent way of keeping you with us and also…congratulations. Again.” She smiled and sipped her tea. “Are you happy with that?l”

Willow Taylor
CO


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