Settling Down Again

Posted on Sun May 22nd, 2011 @ 5:22am by Commander Patrick Leroy

Mission: The Ties That Bind
Location: SB900 - Senior Officer Lodgings

Stepping back to have a look at the finished work Patrick smiled with satisfaction. Well at least something akin to it. The tiding up work in the new quarters had almost been done and Patrick couldn't help to think, with appreciation, how much roomier were the lodgings assigned to crew on Starbases with respect to those on starships. And those of department Head officers even more so.

As he gazed around the room he thought that his meagre belongings where stretched quite thin on the ample locale: the old chessboard on the table amidst the room, the guitar on the far wall near the bedroom, maybe too far, and some pictures and paintings brought over from the Berkeley appointed here and there in the living room.
Still the locale seemed almost... Empty.

"So... We do have a little challenge here. Even before starting to work." He spoke to himself. "This locale definitely needs character, just to get out of that 'cadet cruise' feeling."

Making a mental note for himself to get as soon as possible to the merchant marine quarter he shoved off the empty boxes in a corner of the room "You'll be out of here in no time".

His doubts about the choice appeased he had come onto another surprise when the news of captain's O'Connell retirement had reached him. So he, and the comrades coming from the Berk that had made his same choice, would have served under a new CO. But that were thoughts for the future.

Turning to look around the quarters his eyes fell on that last box, the metal one, near the doors.
Sighing he crouched near to it, slowly removed the lid, and with careful moves he took out the shiny crystal.

It seems you weren't destined to go far in space this time. Isn't it friend?

Pinkish ripples visible where his fingers touched it, Patrick put the mineral on his desk near the terminal.

"Don't get used to it. It's just temporary quarters. You're place is in the labs where you'll get soon enough."

Patrick smiled at the thought of speaking with a stone, like it was able to understand or even answer. Still many mysteries still circled around it unsolved an he and his crewmates had been given sound proof of that. Sometimes he wondered if an intelligent will could be enclosed in the scalene structure of the crystal.

"Of course not." he answered to his own thought, walking away. A tingling got him though, half-way to the bathroom where he was directed.
A queer sensation flashed through his mind making him turn to watch the crystal for a moment.

Nah... Don't be silly.



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Lt. Cmdr Patrick Leroy
Chief Science Officer

Starbase 900