Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Joseph Rainns (Incoming Chief of Security) in Side Sim- A private stroll

Posted by Cadet Sharah Fayth (Doctor) in Side Sim- A private stroll

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A small frown formed on Rainns, ‘I’m sorry to hear that.’ He thought. ‘I hope the fact that I am able to do this helps you.’ Rainns turned to Fayth. “Well, I’m than happy to fill in that role while you are on this ship, and hopefully I’ll have a better track record at the end of it all.”

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Sharah shrugged stoically. “It’s my life,” she said aloud. She looked out the window one more time before walking again. ‘You help more than I can express,’ she thought. ‘It’s still a little shocking to me how you were able to do that. I would love to take you up on that. Your rational way of looking at things has already made a difference for me.’ Sharah stopped walking and looked up at Joseph. “Physically it is very quiet down here. Most everyone is…” she tipped her head to the side callculating, “at least half a corridor away or a whole other deck. I don’t think I’ve seen the ship this quiet yet.”
Cadet Fayth, Doctor

‘Anytime Doc’ Rainns responded in his head. Following Sharah down the hallway. He stopped when she did. “What do you mean? How can you tell?” He asked in a puzzled a tone. “Can you sense the proximity of other’s thoughts as well?”

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Sharah nodded, “It’s not exact. So if I’m in a room and I concentrate on what people are thinking I can tell which thoughts are from which person in the room. So let’s say if you are in a crowded room, with lots of conversation, if you concentrate on what one person is saying, you can hear them. Or if you are looking for one specific person you can focus on the sound of their voice and follow it across a room. If someone raises their voice, or laughs you can pinpoint with your hearing where it came from.
Telepathy can be used in a similar way. But with so many voices I have to really concentrate to filter the noise by distance and location. Another way, and I don’t like doing it, is to consciously listen to what they are thinking. Such as: I really wish engineering would fix my door chime. There are other subconscious thoughts attached to that one. Like the image of a friend standing outside the door for several minutes without answer, or looking at their door from the outside and the image of the corridor becomes part of the thought. To me that is very invasive and I really feel....unclean doing that.”
Cadet Fayth, Doctor

“So in other wards, I’m boring you and you are curious to see what everyone else on the ship is up to.” Rainns smirked. “I am sorry to have forced you to scour the ship or a more interesting conversation,” he apologized in a sarcastic tone.

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Sharah’s eyes got really big and she looked Really mad. His sudden change in mood hurt, but she knew she would not back down and hide because his accusation hurt so much. He mattered too much to her. She put the thoughts right into his head. ‘You know I’ve kept this connection open to you so you can see what I’m thinking anytime you want, and if you really accepted me as I am, you’d know that’s not true. I only wanted to know so I could do this,’ with butterflies and all she tugged his hand bringing him closer so she could kiss him. After a long moment she pulled away. Swiping away tears, ‘Joseph Rainns that was not fair. You said you would accept me and all my faults as I am. I can’t stop what I hear and I do my best to filter it. I told you earlier what I wanted, I’m not so insubstantial a person to change my mind that quickly.’
She turned and walked a few feet away to look out a window.
Cadet Fayth, Doctor

Fayth’s agitated reaction took Joseph Rainns by surprise, amusement was replaced with confusion. ‘Sharah’ he thought, ‘I was making a joke, I know you can’t help it.’ He walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder. ‘My humor is a little blunt and sarcastic, I’m sorry if you didn’t find the joke funny. I know you aren’t bored with me, the link works both ways, if you were I would have known and done my best to alleviate it, not make a cutting remark about it.’ He had thought his sarcastic tone had indicated a jovial attitude, but it seemed Fayth had interpreted it as cynicism.

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Sharah’s face made a little “O” of shock and then she covered her face with her hands, ‘Oh…I…I’ve really messed up. I’m so so sorry. No one’s ever joked like that around me. Everyone’s always so serious and I thought....” She was NOT going to cry…okay so she already was but it was going to stop, she needed to get a hold of herself. She wiped her face and looked up at him, speaking aloud, “Joseph, I am so sorry. You didn’t deserve that.”
The only way she knew to convey what she was thinking was to stop talking aloud. ‘I just really wanted to know we were alone. I know how you feel about other officers seeing into your personal life and I wanted to respect that, and then I just did exactly what I accused you of. Please forgive me’
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