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After a long moment one of the second floor windows came open, and an elderly lady poked her head out squinting. “..Oh my if it isnt little Sally! My how you have grown! Why yes of course I am home as you can see!” She said chuckling. “..I see you got some friends too!” Then looking closer she adjusted some glasses on her face, “..Ah are those Starfleet crew I see? Looks like they went and changed their uniform designs again since that dastardly war back in the 2370s! What is that like the third or fourth time now?” She said.

”..I uh…I don’t know Mrs Dalkens? They are just out here with me to see our colony farms, and deliver some of the mail! You got one in fact, can we come in to delivery it?” Sally inquired.

”..Well I don’t see why not, come on up to the porch and let yourselves in then. Just gotta get the Cherry Bread loaves out of the oven first!” She said sliding off from view.

Sally seemed excited, “..Oh gosh I thought that was her famous cherry bread I smelled. You’re in for a real treat if she offers you a slice totally take it!” Sally said leading them up the steps to the porch and going in through the front door and to the left into a mid-1800s style kitchen.

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Mar laughed with the woman. “Yes, ma’am. They’ve changed it plenty.”

She continued to smile as Sally lead her into the house. The fresh baked smell was a welcoming thing. Mar couldn’t remember the last time she had eaten food that hadn’t come from a replicator. As they entered the kitchen, she shook her head, looking around. “It’s funny, you know. We travel between planets, between galaxies, between quadrants of existence. Yet it always comes down to going home, and getting back to the basics. And it doesn’t matter where that place is.”

She carried in the mail for the woman and waited where Sally told her to.

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Sally smiled a bit, “..Well I would not know ma’am.” She said to Marlaa. “..I have not ever been off world. Usually most of us born here never decide to leave. Though some do now and then.” she said.

Entering through a side door into what seemed a paneled doorway, the elderly lady known as Mrs Dalkens came into the kitchen again it seems from a side area. “..Oh deary me, so you’re one of those Starfleet folks visiting our small slice of the Federation is it? Why let me see here..” She said adjusting a pair of glasses on her face looking over Marlaa, “..please correct me if I am wrong but given your appearance you seem like one of those hybrid human Vulcans I think? Or…hmm maybe Romulan? I did hear they had a bit of trouble a decade ago on the news bursts. But I never did pay much attention to things outside our little slice of life.” she said setting a tray of bread pans on a cooling rake.

OOC: Going to assume you’ll correct her here Mel!

”..Ah I see, yes quite sorry for that! So also seems like you brought me the mail! I guess that would be from my nephew, Stanley, no doubt, only family I got off world.” she said, and once offered took it and carefully opened it pulling out a creased paper letter with the back markings showing it carried the Starfleet insignia on it with a ship’s logo of USS Chariot, NCC-19320, with the icon of an old Roman chariot on it, listing it as a Sunlight fast frigate. “..mmm…” the woman said reading it a moment, “..Well seems he is doing well.” She said without much comment laying it down on the table nearby. Marlaa though got the impression she seemed a bit annoyed perhaps, or frustrated at something she read on the letter. Turning then to check the bread loaf she took out a bread knife. “..But! I would be a terrible hostess if I did not offer you both a slice or two of my cheery bread?” she asked both.

Sally nodded eagerly, “..Oh yes please, Mrs Dalkens! It has been months since I last had one of your lovely breads especially the Cherry ones!” the girl said almost eagerly with barely restrained eagerness.

Smiling the woman sliced off a fair piece and after more nods from the girl to add some kind of honey whipped butter to it handed it over on a plate, looking then to Marlee she ssaid, “..and you dear?” she inquired.

OOC: In case you wanted to read up on the sunlight fast frigate class here is the temp link page from edept https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/edept/notes/669/

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