Posted by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Songz Arrival

Posted by Civilian Sair Songz (Counselor) in Songz Arrival

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To be fair, finding said new Counsellor wasn’t difficult. She was the slightly awestruck woman taking everything in raptly.

That, and she had purple hair.

When she had been at Starfleet Medical, one of her colleagues had called the shade lilac and she liked the sound of the word and how it rolled off her tongue. LIE-Lac. Lyyy-lac. Never mind that there was a similar word in her language that referred to the sounds a korlac mad when it was angry. It was completely the opposite to her, so it amused her.

A pair of officers in gold approached, a Bolian and what she thought was probably a Human. “Ma’am? Are you the new counsellor?” the Bolian asked.

“Indeed, I am! Hi! I’m Sair! Sair Songz.” she said with a wide grin.

“The Captain asked us to escort you up to him.”

“Ah yes, I was trying to get there, but I seemed to have gotten distracted and a little lost. I’m not sure where I am exactly, but now you’re here!”

“You’re at Engineering. On Deck Sixteen,” the female Human said.

Sair frowned slightly. “Oh, dear me! That is quite turned around, now isn’t it? But never mind. Onwards, or… upwards to the Captain?” she said with a gleam in her eyes.

The security officer tried really hard to keep a straight face but the Bolian laughed aloud. “Upwards it is. This way Ma’am.”

“Ugh, none of that formal stuff. I’m a civilian, after all..”

The two officers exchanged a glance and smiled as they led her to the turbolift. Which provided Sair with a nice little refresher on navigating around a Starfleet facility. And then of course was that flush of embarrassment as she realized that had she just remembered to call out Bridge, it would have gotten her right there. Ah, well! Her first day was bound to have a few mishaps, but like always she let them roll right off of her.

When they finally arrived at the bridge, they were laughing and joking together, making a rather boisterous amount of noise, all told. But if Sair noticed the curious looks as they walked over to the ready room, she showed no sign of it. “Well, I’m here it looks like. And I’m decidedly glad I’m not a pilot!” she said with a wink towards the helm. Meanwhile, one of her companions pressed the chime.

~Sair Songz, CNS

The door slid open to frame the standing figure of the Commanding Officer of the *USS Manhattan, Alexander Cochrane. He smiled at the nw arrival and said “Hello. I am assuming you are the wayward Counselor? Please, come in. I’m Captain Cochrane.” anhe stepped to the side and gestured her in. Looking at the Security detail, he said “Thank you. I’ll let you know if we need help getting her anywhere else.” and chuckled as did the two escorts as they nodded and walked away.

“Aye Captain,” the Bolian replied with a grin.

“Thank you both for lovely help!” Said said. The officer bowed their heads and left.

“Please have a seat Miss… or is it Mrs.? I haven’t met a member of the Kobliad species before, so you will have to forgive my lack of knowledge of the customary greetings.”

Cochrane, CO

“It depends,” Sair said with a laugh as she took a seat at the desk and immediately crossed her legs and tucked a loose strand of lilac hair that had escaped her swept up-do. “As a people we’re big on formalities. Rigidly so. It’s probably why I dislike it so much,” she said with a smirk. “But I know that here those formalities have their necessity, so while I would prefer Sair, if you need to be formal, Miss could do, but Doctor is probably easiest. Even if my medical degree isn’t in mental health, I’m still technically one,” she said with a shrug. “Captain,” she added, remembering the expected formality on her end. “Honestly, it’s not so different than the hierarchy in a hospital, so I’ll muddle along.” And realizing he was starting to ramble, she promptly shut up.

~Sair Songz, CNS