What's the Stitch
Posted on Wed Jun 14th, 2023 @ 9:28am by Lieutenant Siadra Molaur & Ensign Nala Rider
Edited on on Tue Jun 20th, 2023 @ 10:05pm
1,576 words; about a 8 minute read
Mission:
The Sins of History
Location: Deck 11 - USS Artemis
Timeline: MD003 1400 hrs
Stepping out of the turbo lift, Siadra walked with a great zest. Siadra was finally heading towards her office, she felt rather elated. Siadra had her recording device out, sort of narrating her arrival.
"I have finally arrived on Deck 11. Here will be where I will get to work out the mysteries, the causes and find the answers of what happened." her steps slowed slightly, as Siadra switched her brightly colored shoulder bag back upon her shoulder. It had slipped down. "I am also hoping that there will be some answers, that I can find for something that has happened in my past. For now though, as I start to sift through my own mess, I am going to concentrate on the work that will be at hand. First off though I've got someone to meet here in the labs. I was told that an Ensign Ryder was here. I am looking forward to meeting her."
Another few steps the Siadra continued. "I wonder if she were here during the Breen attack. So far all of the people's stories have been rather interesting." Siadra paused as she walked in for the first time what will be her domain.
"I think that there might be someone here. Is anyone in here?" Siadra called out.
Nala was shoulder deep in one of the lab fridges with her headphones on. After placing the vial she held in it's proper place, Nala slowly backed out of the fridge and turned around.
"YIPES!" Nala jumped six feet in the air as she caught sight of a person!
"Oh...oh my gosh, I am so sorry! I...I had my 'phones on and...let's try this again. I'm Ensign Nala Rider, FRS of the Artemis. It's nice to meet you, Ma'am," Nala wiped her hand off on her coat and offered it to the stranger.
Siadra chuckled and accepted the hand held out to her and shook it gently. "Pleasure to meet you. Oh yes, I am Lieutenant Siadra Molaur, a joined Trill. You and I will be working together." she headed towards her office, "If you'd like to follow me, I'm going to be putting my bag inside the office. We can chat while I get familiarized with the set up here."
Nala had to jog to catch up with little miss speedy gonzales. "[This is going to be fun] Sure thing Lt!" Nala panted, attempting to at least pretend to be professional.
"Do you like cake? Or cookies or pastries?" Siadra asked as she made her way into her office. There she set down the bags on one of the chairs that were there. She went to check out the storage areas in her office, figuring out where to put her goodies.
"All of the above actually!" Nala panted as she skidded to a stop in Siadra's office.
[Yesh! This girl's all over the place...but surprisingly fun!] Nala thought, still a bit off kilter, but maybe starting to regain her feet.
"Oh that is good, I've got a few small cakes and cookies plus some pastries." Siadra replied, then grunted with satisfaction, finding a place to stash her goodies. "There we go, a place for the yummies" giving a chuckle. "Please help yourself." Siadra turning with a smile. Then she raised an eyebrow. "You know I've not checked to see if we had a small break room."
"Thank you! I...we...er...I actually don't know either!" Nala laughed nervously. [Ok...just, BREATH for Pete sake!] Nala thought.
Siadra chuckled, "Okay lets go see if we do." motioning for Nala to follow once more. To her delight, there was a breakroom, "Oh good will make it easier to have snacks or a meal and not worry about doing any cross contamination from our meals. I would hate for that to happen and have any of our dna get mixed up with the evidence we've gathered."
"Well braid my hair...sweet!" Nala grinned as she followed Siadra.
"Yeah...that'd be a bad thing, especially considering something I did back in the Academy," Nala chuckled at the memory.
"Whoops! Yeah that's not fun when you erm find yourself guilty of murder." Siadra gave a slight chuckle, "Did you do that yourself?" Siadra looking in the cupboards and making plans on what to put in there. She came across a door which she opened. "Oh look I found the head!" looking back at Nala. "Nice!"
"It did almost turned out that way actually! I thankfully caught the actual crook, turned out to be one of the Professors...long story.
Eyup I...er...what exactly am I admitting to having done?" Nala asked, looking around the room to see if she could find what Siadra ment.
"Finally! I've been running to the other end of the deck to go!" Nala burst out laughing.
"What you didn't go poking into everything here like I have been?" Siadra giggling. "I am a very nosy person when it comes to where I will be working." giving a vigorus nod towards Nala. "So what do you like to do when you are off from work?"
"Well...I kinda just kept my head buried in my work. When I'm not working, I'm either working on puzzles, crossword puzzles, word searches, reading, drawing or painting, or I'm in the Holodeck swimming, horseback riding, hiking, gymnastics, science...er...let's just say it's safer to do it in there, and parkour," Nala smiled at her most recent Holodeck memories.
Siadra gave a nod, "You certainly do keep yourself active. Parkour, that sounds exciting. I've watched others do that. Definitely agile people who can do such. I don't know if I could be that agile, but the other things sound quite lovely. Perhaps I can join you on some of your excursions in hiking and horseback riding."
"I try to. That'd be great! Yeah...parkour's a bit out there, but it keeps me sharp and lithe," Nala felt a blush creep up her cheeks as she again thought about the Holodeck.
"Looks to me like you enjoy all of the activities." She noticed the blush but had no clue about what it was about. "Well are there any questions you have for me or do you want to save them for later." Siadra looking around once more at the lab. "We've got to get familar with things or well I do, since you've been here longer than I have."
"Well, I have a few...but I can ask them later. I actually moved a few things around: the Centrifuge is over here where the DNA fridge used to be...it's where the Centrifuge used to be. Actually...everything's in the opposite corner of where it used to be," Nala rubbed her neck sheepishly.
"Were you finding the Feng Shui for the lab before I came onboard?" Siadra having a bit of a smile. "So is it according to your taste and feel?" the trill woman having a look around to see how the lab flowed.
Nala blinked...then laughed! "When you say it that way, I suppose so! Almost...there's still something missing...I just can't put my finger on it," Nala's head drooped a little.
Nala'd been working on the space for the entire time she'd been aboard...but she just couldn't find that thing that would make the place 'perfect'.
Siadra looked around, "So... do we have any plants around to help out the oxygen level in here? Maybe a picture to brighten up the spot?" going over her mental check list of the equipment at hand.
"That's it! That's what's been missing! Plants!" Nala whooped, bouncing around the room, happy as a lark!
"Okay then, lets get some plants and make certain that we log in the intial genetics of them just to make certain when we get tests done here, we'll know that they won't compromise the samples we have. Do you have any recommendations?" Siadra looking at Nala and giving a bright smile.
"We'll need some strawberries and blue berries so we can have something to snack on...I graze when I'm REALLY concentrating, Strongylodon macrobotrys, which is also called a Jade Vine, Puya × berteroniana is a natural hybrid in the genus Puya between the species Puya alpestris subsp. zoellneri × Puya venusta. This natural hybrid is endemic to Chile. A revision of Puya found that it is likely a hybrid, given its rarity and intermediate characteristics between several species. Additionally, the name Puya berteroniana has been widely misapplied to plants of a different species, Puya alpestris...and I just went all goofy. Anyway, sunflowers, roses, and some ferns'd be great!" Nala blushed at her rambling.
"Well then lets get this set up. After all who is to say we can't have a small garden area to where we can have some lovely snacks to munch on." Siadra giving a delighted laugh. "Lets get to planning on this."
"Yeha, come on!" Nala squeaked happily as she skipped over to the door.
Siadra laughed this was going to be a good thing.
A Joint Post By
Lieutenant Siadra Molaur
Chief Forensic Science Officer, USS Artemis
Starfleet Criminal Investigations Unit
Ensign Nala Rider
Facial Reconstruction Specialist, USS Artemis
Starfleet Criminal Investigations Unit
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