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Nessa gave another three circle stance, and whined again, giving more urgency to her need to ‘get going’. With nothing else to do they may as well ‘get to it’.

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Sasha looked at the Sergeant then to Rick. “I will go back to the bay and bring up anything I might find there and complete the gravity scans. It may be best to attend to the Sergeant.” With that, Sasha gave a respectful nod to the doctor and left.

“Can I leave these things here for now, doctor? I’ll pick them up a little later after Nessa and I have .. attended to business.” He did still have the tablet with him for reference.” Moving the box of food and things off to the side and out of the way for the moment, he said, “Nessa, come,” and, waiting for a moment for her to respond, they moved out of sickbay and in the direction of the arboretum. Sickbay was on B deck and the arboretum was on D deck. Not that far down. Mentally still getting his bearings in this new ship, Rick made for the nearest lift to take them down to D deck. Here and there Rick could pick up the click click of Nessa’s nails on the deckplates. He would have to look up if they needed to be trimmed. Well, they did. Barb’s folks had to, he recalled. He would have to look into the accompanying kits supplied for things like clippers and a brush maybe?

After a short trip where Rick began to feel a sense of urgency, he picked up his pace and made it to the arboretum. He had not visited there yet and was curious what he would find ..

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As Rick and Nessa got to the arboretum, he would find it was as many of the science labs a bit small in scale. While slightly larger in scope to contain plants and such studies, it was not planted with grass say on the floor or such. Still the air in here was much fresher due to the plants and over in one corner of the lab by a small 8x8 ft area a patch of grass and flowers had been setup for the scientists to experiment with. Nessa obviously in urgent need of doing her business yipped and ran over to the corner soon hunching over and letting loose before anyone could stop her.

NE Bickers the only science member present in the lab looked up when the yip then slight smell of fresh dog doo doo reached his nose. Frowning he looked at Rick in displeasure, “..I do hope you plan to clean that up SIR?” he asked. Nessa meanwhile having finished sniffed about the area then done with her business returned dutifully to Rick’s side looking up at him with her tongue lolling out on her right side.

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