Posted by Major Vektul (Chief Engineer) in Office: Counselor Baxter - One Lonely Romulan
The corridor outside the counselor’s office was quiet—no hum of engineers debating conduit stress, no chatter of junior officers filing reports. Just the steady pulse of the ship, low and constant beneath his boots.

Vektul paused at the door, hands clasped behind his back, gaze set straight ahead. He had entered this space before—mandatory evaluations, perfunctory inquiries, the formalities of Starfleet procedure. This was not that.

This was a first.

He drew a slow breath and pressed the chime.

¥Major Vektul¥
Chief Engineer
U.S.S. Memorial

The door to the counselor’s office slid open with a quiet hiss, revealing a space still in the process of being claimed. A pair of crates sat stacked near the wall, half-open with personal belongings peeking out. The desk had been rotated slightly away from the window but not yet aligned to the room’s symmetry, and a pair of chairs were set at angles that suggested recent indecision about their placement. It was tidy enough, but not yet polished — a room caught between the old and the new.

Kaylee Baxter stood in the doorway, smoothing the sleeve of her uniform before her bright eyes lifted to meet the Romulan officer waiting outside. Her expression softened into a welcoming smile, the kind that touched her features with warmth rather than formality.

“Hello there,” she said, stepping aside to open the way. “You’ve found me in the middle of turning this place into something less… Starfleet-standard and a little more comfortable for my liking” she gave him a wink. “Please, come in.”

She gestured toward one of the angled chairs with a small laugh. “Though I’ll admit, you may have to forgive the furniture arrangement for now. I haven’t quite decided what feels right yet.”

-Kaylee Baxter, CNS