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Cori's Quarters- Evaluating Options

Posted Feb. 4, 2021, 7:41 a.m. by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) (Lindsay B)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Royal Sinclair (Chief of Security) in Cori’s Quarters- Evaluating Options

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Royal Sinclair (Chief of Security) in Cori’s Quarters- Evaluating Options

Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton/SARAH (Ships AI/Avatar) in Cori’s Quarters- Evaluating Options
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She threw her head back and laughed hard. “Oh… to have been a fly on the wall for that! Were you disappointed when you found out you weren’t?” Cori stayed in her relaxed position and raced her arm on the back of the sofa.

~Corinne Dalton

Royal chuckled and said “Naw… more disappointed in the ‘D’ I got in genetic sequencing because of it.” and then he laughed heartily before calming down and taking the last bite of his lunch. Around the bite, he said “Ok.. hit me again. Make it a good one.”

Royal

“No pressure…” she said dryly. “I mean, aren’t you a supposed master at asking questions?” Was it weird that she didn’t know what else to ask him? “Okay, I think I’m stumped. I’m not sure what else to ask that would be good. I’m assuming that means it’s supposed to be particularly revealing, right?”

~Corinne Dalton

Wiping his hands and his mouth, he smiled knowingly at her. “So I am going to tell you something… and I want you to think about it for a while, ok?” and he turned and full faced her.

“The secret to asking questions is want to know the answers. That being said… the secret to asking good questions is to know what path you want to go down before you ask. Questions aren’t just about information… they are small parts of bridges that we use to connect to one another. Do you understand that? I mean, does that make sense?”

Royal

After a few moments Cori began to slow nod her head. “I want to say that I’m simply out of practice, but I think maybe I never truly knew how. Connection was always tied to a relationship, and outside of that I had avoided it for a long time.” She broke into a tiny smile. “I guess I just need to stumble along a little more as I keep figuring that out.” She knew what her internal monologue would say about all this, and the evidence had been pretty strong, but at the same time she also knew she didn’t have all the data.

“Do you have any regrets, Royal? Like big ones, the ones that never can be reconciled? Or can they? I don’t know, you’re the trained psychologist,” Dalton said with a laugh.

~Corinne Dalton

Royal looked at her and his eyebrows raised. “Now that is a good question, Cori.” He leaned back and looked at her, his cocked to the side as if weighing options internally. “Well… since it’s such a good question… I suppose that it deserves an answer. And that answer is yes, I have a few. But one is by far the biggest.” and he took a deep breath.

“I very much regret not putting my father down on his arse when I was able to. That one can’t be reconciled. Now, the Counselor in me tells me that it is unhealthy to hold onto anger.” and he smiled and chuckled.

“But then I remind myself that I’m Scottish, and I tell the Counselor part of me to piss off.”

Royal

She laughed. “Well, I always thought a little anger wasn’t a bad thing, that it could fuel your actions in ways that other emotions couldn’t. But there is also plenty of evidence about how negativity can increase your risk for disease and such, so I could very much be wrong here.”

Cori looked about her quarters for a moment with a pensive gaze before shifting back to Royal. “It’s weird… I don’t think it’s that I don’t know how to connect, but I don’t know if I’ve ever truly let myself before. Surface thing, common interests, sure, but deeper?” She shook her head. “And this was before everything went down on the holodeck too. It’s like a muscle I didn’t know I needed that I’m just learning to flex for the first time in years.”

~Corinne Dalton


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