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Catt didn’t so much step into sickbay. she quietly entered with only the woosh of the door to announce her. Even that noise caused her to fold her ears back and nervously hold her tail.
Noting the staff was busy with another crewmate she moved to the side to be as out of the way as possible. She checked her padd and sighed as get medical wss indeed the next item on her “So your newly assigned to a ship.” list.
She was likely supposed to announce herself but everyone was obviously busy so she nervously stood and groomed herself. She brushed a few strands of her fur that had been shed off her older style red uniform jacket , Her blue under tunic and the black pants. Why did it have to be black pants her white fur always stood out in contrast on black. She had gotten far to many demerits because the shed strands at the Academy.
All of which was making her even more nervious which made her shed more. Which of course really didn’t help matters.
She had so far avoided attention since boarding the ship. But that could not last as meeting the science department head and the ships XO, were on her list. It would of been easier if she knew someone on the Challenger.

But her friends had gotten other postings and she was feeling very alone.

So she nearly leapt out of her fur when someone actually spoke to her.

Cadet Catt Bennet. Sciences. USS Challenger.

A nurse approached Catt moments after she entered sickbay. “May I help you cadet?” She asked in a friendly tone. Her arrival was timely, as there was at that moment a slight lull in sickbay traffic. Just feet away, Max was standing beside a recently vacated biobed finishing his paperwork for his most recent patient on a PaDD. Her looked up briefly , noting that Catt may well be his next patient but allowing the nurse to triage without his interference.

Cadet Max Woolley, Medical