Posted Sept. 21, 2022, 9:17 p.m. by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) (Jennifer Ward)
Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Solal Segal (Oncology and Immunology) in Side sim: The Pet Interrogation
Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Side sim: The Pet Interrogation
Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Solal Segal (Oncology and Immunology) in Side sim: The Pet Interrogation
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In Solal’s most recent letter exchange with V’alura, she had suggested he ask Alexis about pets. She’d said they were fulfilling and lovely and very helpful. All very emotional ideas. Solal could trust Alexis to give him a logical rundown of the idea. She was the most logical human he’d ever encountered. He decided to ask her off shift since it wasn’t duty related, and so that was why after hours he was looking for her.~ Solal
Alexis had no idea that Solal was looking for her, but a quick inquiry to GALEN would let Solal know that Alexis was at the holodeck and Frigga was with her.
The holodeck was set up as an obstacle course, with various levels of difficulty, and several different scenarios waiting to be triggered from different species to animals, safe and hazardous situations.
Bonner and Frigga
Solal stepped into the holodeck almost hesitently, stopping just inside. A part of him would rather turn around and walk back out, but no, he’d written V’alura and told her he’d do this. So he cleared his throat quietly, “Lieutenant?”
~ Solal
Frigga had just come down off a ramp and Alexis knelt down and held something out for her to sniff. “Find,” and Frigga took off at an adjacent angle. Bonner looked over as she stood. “Dr. Solal.” She knew the holodeck wasn’t over scheduled, she had checked because these practice session were lengthy but necessary. It couldn’t be a medical emergency, the comm system was working, and GALEN would have notified her. Perhaps it had to do with the genetic testing he had recently volunteered for? Or....had she made a friend? What an interesting idea. She waved him over, “Come in. What can I do for you?”
Bonner
No, there were no emergencies, and Solal hadn’t scheduled time for himself in the holodeck in weeks - not since V’alura had sent him her Paris program. He’d been too busy, he told himself, and he had been, at first. Now he simply lacked the energy for anything besides working. But as long as he could work he was fine.
He stepped a little ways into the room, eyeing Frigga briefly before looking at Bonner. Then he contemplated how to ask his question. “My… ehm.” What did he call her? Sister still felt way too weird. But she was more than a colleague by now, he guessed. So… Friend? Still weird, but he went with that anyway. “Friend, seems to think I should ask someone about the benefits of having a pet.” He thought it was obvious why he would go to Bonner with such a question, given what she was doing.
~ Solal
Alexis nodded her head once slowly. “Ah. Well I can tell you why I got Frigga, but my situation, or my perspective, is different than why most people get pets. She was a prescription by the ship’s counselor. I was 20 and having a hard time communicating with people in my department. Before it hadn’t been such a big deal, I was much younger than everyone and I had my studies to complete. There were…problems with the way I approached people and spoke with them. The counselor thought it would help if I actually attempted to socialize some. Get out of my books.” This had always been an embarrassing topic for Alexis, but she felt okay about sharing this with Solal. Maybe because he’d spoken to her about his…relative, or maybe she was just familiar enough with him as a person. “The counselor thought caring for a pet would force me to leave my quarters and my books and interact with people. She told me, quite correctly, that if I wanted to be a doctor, for nurses, medics, lab techs, other doctors, to respect me and not see me as a ‘kid’ then I had to learn to speak with them in a professional manner I had to put the work in. I could not order them around like an EMH.”
Bonner
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