Lounging around.

Posted on Fri Feb 25th, 2022 @ 6:41pm by Lieutenant Talsi Carey

Mission: Free write
Location: Lounge
Timeline: Previous mission

Tal followed Chesire in, she needed a break, luckily she had officers accompany her, while they took him to a replicator for food, she walked up to the bar. "ust the usual Mitch." She ordered.

"One whisky sunrise coming up..." He bent down and picked up a large vase, poured the entire bottle of alcohol in and continued with the other ingredients. "One day I will find alcohol that does affect you." He replied as he slid it over. "Maybe Romulan Ale."

"Not a chance. And that is also a no... tried and failed." Tal replied with a smirk, as she took the tall glass. Turning she noticed an unfamiliar face sitting at the table. Waling over, she looked to chesire first before turning her attention to the woman sitting down. "Afternoon."

Paige had been lost in thought about this new assignment, stirring her drink absently with the spear of fruit that was included with the tropical beverage. Startled by the movement and the greeting, the blonde woman tipped her drink, and scrambled to catch it before it annointed the table. Only a few drops spilled as she righted it. "Hello"

"Apologies for startling you. Lt Carey, assistant security chief. Otherwise known as the blue giant, Blue monkey, or Captains wife."

"Paige Bryant. Archeology and Alien Anthropology. " she replied in kind her hazel eyes tracking up to the very blue female before her. Captain's wife, this promised to be an interesting assignment.

"Nice." She looked over at the officers before sitting down. "Got a question for you... i know its not something usually faced with immediately when first meeting. How does one start looking how a race or civilization has ended. The cause itself of the demise."

"It depends on the civilization." she answered after a moment's thought "Sometimes the demise is easy to pinpoint, a volcanic event or natural disaster. Sometimes things are more insidious and it's difficult to determine based only on artifact and fossil record. If they have a written language, books or recordings that can make it easier. What lost civilization has your intrest?"

"My own. When I was placed in stasis, my people were fighting a virus, when I came out, it was 100,000 years later, and none of my people were around for a very long time. I don't know if the virus wiped them out, or another demise."

"Viruses and other pandemics have patterns that you can see in burial records if there are any. The patterns of how people lay out the bodies, or dispose of them changes." Wetting full lips with her tongue she continued "I could look if you like, see if I can spot any patterns that someone untrained would miss."

"They are not in any database. This happened what you call approximately 100,000 years ago. Not even in the space you claim as federation. My life is long, I will be around a long time after my husbands death, I may wish to seek answers."

"You may wish to do that, though without some academic study in the field I doubt you will find what you're looking for. Some of the queues are subtle and transient" She shrugged at the idea that she would be seeking answers after the Captain had passed into the next life.

"I plan on placing my career into other avenues in the upcoming years. Security is something that my husband was in when we met, so I chose that."

"I don't know what to tell you except good luck. The field is truly an interesting one." She sipped her drink slowly after speaking, nibbling the pineapple off of the spear.

"Thank you I appreciate it." Tal replied with a smile. "Would you care to teach?"

She blinked in surprise at the blue female across the table from her "I'm hallucinating. You just asked me to teach you how to be an anthropologist? Seriously? Shit, i mean I can try. I'm not really a teacher perse..."

"I am not sure how to start, if perhaps i had someone to learn from, even if its from... holodeck simulations, maybe future missions that enable civilians to the surface... or are you an officer onboard."

"There's not a policy for civillians to go to the surface of planets? Seems...like that wasn't well thought out." She offered a shrug, then tapped her lips with the skewer of fruit that had been in her drink. "Civillians have things to offer Starfleet that they won't necessarily get from their officer corps I think."

"I have no doubt about that Miss Bryant." Tal replied with a smile. "I worked on the USS Wellington for more than a year as a scientist, then as a security officer. I am making my way over to operations as soon as my shift is over."

"Ambitious" Paige complimented and grinned over her cup at the captain's wife.

"I go where there is a need. If we find another for operations. I will decide where to go from there. Perhaps maybe I will join you as a civilian."

"It's not a bad life, honestly. Though sometimes archeological expeditions are quite...unpleasant to bear. It's worth it for the discoveries and the science." Another chuckle left her lips.

"Unpleasant? Please explain."

"My last assignment was in a swamp on Lostaline III, while the ruins were magnificent...the perpetual cold and damp was unpleasant. Archeological teams aren't permitted to alter the weather for their comfort due to the possible effects on the ruins around them. Things get accustomed to one set of surroundings."

"Sounds like my kind of planet. My people, our homeworld most of it is in swamplike."

"You have fur, and an adequate body mass to keep yourself warm. I as a human- do not." cocking her head to one side, she regarded the blue furred female. "You might have a more pleasant time of it than I did."

"Fur? Ah... yes the fur. Maybe thats true. But Desert planets... horrible."

A chuckle answered the other female. "I suppose it would be for you..." That just made it more clear to her that to each there was beneficial postings and detrimental ones. Lovely that.

"Sand in Fur... worst than sand in carpets.'

Paige couldn't help but snort her amusement to that statement. "I'll have to take your word for it"

"So... whats brings you here."

"Here, the lounge? Food." She giggled softly and shook her head "Here the ship? They requested an Archeologist and Anthropologist. I was only too willing to come out of the swamp and come here to serve. I'd like some adventure."

"If it is anything like my last posting, it should be."

"That sounds perfectly lovely to me." Her smile was soft as Paige cast her eyes to the stars in the window.

"May I interest you in anything."

That was an interesting thing to ask, and she glanced at the captains wife. "No, I'm good, thanks."

"Very well, I should get back." Tal replied as she nodded and turned. Heading back to the group.