Posted by Commander Siadra Enai (Executive Officer) in Calloway’s Quarters - A shoulder to lean on? Someone to vent to?

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Posted by Commander Siadra Enai (Executive Officer) in In the Corridors - A shoulder to lean on? Someone to vent to?
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The moment Siadra had left the conference room and had made sure she was alone in the corridor, she addressed the computer, =/\= Computer, please locate Commander Calloway. =/\= Of course she could have just called her and asked where she was. But she had a feeling that she might not get an answer to that question. And while she was generally all for giving people the space they needed, she was under the impression that Shara needed someone to talk to. Someone who might understand, even if only slightly, how she was feeling. Even if she didn’t want to.

~Cmdr. Enai, XO

“Commander Calloway is in her quarters.”

~Helpful Computer

Siadra nodded to herself and started to make her way straight towards Shara’s quarters only to change her mind after a few metres. Instead she headed to her own quarters first and grabbed a bottle filled with an amber coloured liquid from one of the cabinets in her living room. With the bottle in hand she then continued onto her way to the CIO’s quarters. Thanks to size of the ship it didn’t take her very long till she arrived at her destination. Holding the bottle at chest height in front of her, she took a deep breath and then pressed the chime with her right hand.

~Cmdr. Enai, XO

Shara sighed inwardly as the chime sounded. Lying on the bed in her small quarters, a bag sat open at the foot of the bed and the lights were half-bright. Arms braced under her head, she gaze up at the ceiling. She was angry enough to walk and it wasn’t just Micah. It was the whole damn thing. And yet he knew and she knew that the moment the mission was laid out, despite any and all of objections, her sense of duty would compel her to participate.

She hated herself for it.

For a moment after the chime sounded, Shara debated ignoring whomever it was, but on a ship this small that wasn’t going to fly. “Come,” she said quietly, the bitterness in her voice evident even to her own ears.

Commander Calloway, CIO

As the doors swished open in front of her, Siadra stepped carefully, almost silently into Shara’s quarters. She could sense the other woman’s emotions easily. Despite being only half-Betazoid. “Hey,” she greeted her gently. “I hope you don’t mind me coming here. I just thought you could use someone to talk to. Or a strong drink. Or both.” A small, slightly lopsided grin tugged at the corner of her lips as she held up the bottle in her hand. “I sure feel like having a drink,” she added. And everyone who knew her well, would know that that was a very rare thing for the First Officer. Sure, she enjoyed a glass of wine or even a cocktail in the company of others. But rarely, if ever, did she feel the need for a drink and rarely did she have something as strong as the content of the bottle in her hand.

~Cmdr. Enai, XO

Silently, Shara pushed herself into a sitting position, slipped off the bed and grabbed a couple glass from the cupboard in the bedside table. She sat in one of the two chairs and held them out so Enai could pour for both of them and wished the quarters weren’t so… bunk like. But it was a small ship and space was at a premium. As it was, she hadn’t had a chance to do much with her space other than set out a few framed photos on her desk: one of a younger her, Edward and a ten year old Faye, one of her and Faye from her recent time on the Manhattan and one of her and Micah with their 800 acres of beautiful land in the background.

Commander Calloway, CIO