Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in Lounge - Call for help

Posted by Ensign Viyara Nazeen (Scientist) in Lounge - Call for help

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in Lounge - Call for help
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Daggum nodded in appreciation. “The second sounds kinda fun. Might be even more fun if you got a few people to join you. You could make it a team building exercise for your department if you wanted to. Hmmm… I actually make look into that. My staff has been busting their asses for the past week, might be a good time to blow off some steam and switch mental gears for a minute.”

Hammor, Ops

Viyara nodded and grinned, “Sounds like a good idea. It seemed like there were even different levels of difficulty.” Reaching for her Irish coffee to a couple of sips and silently pondered a few things as she looked at Daggum.

~Ensign Nazeen, Scientist

Daggum watched her for a few moments before smiling and saying “You’re in your head again. Whats on your mind?”

Daggum

Viyara shook her head and then sighed. “You are way too good at reading me,” she replied with a laugh in an attempt to mask the various emotions his simple observation and question had conjured up inside her. “And it’s nothing, really. Just me being awkward and silly and I don’t even know why.”

~Ensign Nazeen, Scientist

“Awkward and silly about what?” Daggum asked, but his voice was a bit more soft. He knew Viyara well enough to know when to push and when to just lend gentle encouragement to open up.

Hammor

Staring down at the tabletop, Viyara was uncharacteristically bashful as she chewed on her lower lip and thought about whether or not she should tell Daggum what was on her mind and how to put it into words if she decided to say anything.

With her eyes still cast down, Viyara eventually said in a low voice and in a bit of a rush, “It’s stupid and I should have just asked. I know that. I kind of hoped that maybe the two of us could give the programs I mentioned a try and when you talked about doing one of them with your department, it made a little sad.” By now her cheeks had turned a flaming red. And if had dared to analyse her emotions a bit more or hadn’t spend so much time in her life pushing her feelings aside instead of allowing herself to feel them, she might have recognised that she was not only sad, but actually a little jealous.

~Ensign Nazeen, Scientist