Posted by Lieutenant Commander Faye Calloway (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Sickbay 2 - Faye and Khabal

Posted by Lieutenant Benjamin Grey (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay 2 - Faye and Khabal

Posted by Civilian Khabal (Civilian) in Sickbay 2 - Faye and Khabal
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“Computer, run program Calloway-Alpha-2,” she called. The space morphed from the grey walls into a vast industrial space (that looked like it was on a starship) that had been converted into a massive garden. But garden was an understatement. This was no arboretum like the three they had on the Athena. No, this was a carefully designed place, meant to be explored and enjoyed, both for general relaxation but also as an outlet and a place of connection and scientific study.

She blew out a breath. “This is the garden I designed and built, with help of course, on the USS Manhattan, my last posting. My best friend sent this program to me so I would have it as a place of refuge when I needed it. I figured it could be a nice place for a meal. Makes for a great picnic spot.”

OOC: This is the description and there is a link to the image I drew for it: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/stf1/manhattan/posts/116416/

~Faye Calloway, CIO

Khabal took it all in.

“Very nicely done.” he said with a huge smile and light applause, “Did you create this yourself?” he asked then vanished.

Fafye was about to answer when his sudden disappearance startled her.

At the same moment there was a loud thump like a body hitting a wall. Faye would find Khabal about twelve feet away, to her right, laying on the ground with a bloody nose. He was looking at the ceiling as his hand casually reached up and felt his bloody nose then looked casually at his blood smeared fingers and let out a kind of disappointed “Ow…”.

• Khabal

The noise made her spin and seeing him lying there she hurried over and dropped to one knee. “Whoa! What happened?” Faye said, not sure if she should help him sit up or not.

~Faye Calloway, CIO

Khabal sat up with a sheepish grin not hiding his embarrassment. His nose had already stopped bleeding and the line of blood from his nose and over his chin was starting to vanish.

“I got excited and used the step forgetting that all this is actually in a small room.” Khabal explained.

“Ahh,” she said.

He gingerly touched his nose, “That’s going to be tender for a few minutes.”

• Khabal

“You’re bleeding. We should take you to Sickbay,” Faye said firmly. It was protocol, after all. “They can stop a bloody nose pretty quickly though.”

~Faye Calloway, CIO

“It’ll likely be mostly healed by the time we get there but I’ll grant your wish.” Khabal said standing up.

That was an interesting tid bit and Faye filed it away for later.

Khabal was a bit embarrassed at slamming himself carelessly into the wall but the projection was stunning and he had forgotten himself until the wall abruptly reminded him.

“Lead the way?” Khabal said motioning to the exit arch.

• Khabal

Faye looked back over the simulation and then at Khabal. She nodded and headed out.

Walking along Deck 16, Faye found the nearest turbolift and called it. She stepped in when it arrived and waited for him before calling out, “Deck Twelve, Sickbay Two,” she said.

Khabal followed Faye. Even when he was relaxed, his movements were inhumanly smooth, precise, and silent.

Faye eyed him. “Is your rate of healing consistent or dependant on different variables?” She frowned. “If that is something I can ask.” After all, maybe it was a taboo. It would be like her to just stomp through undesired topics without a clue.

~Faye Calloway, CIO

Khabal shrugged casually.

“You can. Between genetic engineering, nanotechnology, bioware, and what might as well be magic, a Quarm’s ability to heal damage is dependent on the amount of damage to be healed. This,” Khabal said indicating his nose, “is just a few minutes, a broken bone could take an hour. More extensive damage takes more time. The rate of healing and support is such that I can survive approximately 20 minutes of hard vacuum, without protection, before any ill effects start presenting. I am nowhere near the most powerful of my kind.”

• Khabal

She studied him as they made their way into Sickbay. “Huh,” was all she said.

Khabal smiled and shrugged sheepishly.

• Khabal

Looking around, Faye’s stormy green eyes hunted for an available medical person.

~Faye Calloway, CIO

OOC: A bump for Hjortur who said he’d be catching up soon. :) ~Linds

Green eyes met green eyes as Ben looked across the room. He was standing on the far end of the bay from the entrance, he’d looked up when the door slid open. He wasn’t wearing his white coat, having left it draped over his office chair. Benjamin had his sleeves rolled up and was apparently injecting himself with a hypo as a nurse scanned him with a tricorder. He placed the hypo on a small tray and dismissed the nurse with a few quick words and made his way across to Faye and Khabal with a smile that seemed genuine for him “Good Afternoon” He said giving a nod to Faye and Khabal and opened his mouth to speak then frowned and stepped closer to the alien, human, genetically engineered… well just Khabal. He was still slightly unnerved by Khabal, despite having only met the man once, but that was all forgotten as he leaned in and sniffed “That’s odd” He was only inches from his face and was looking around intensely as if searching for something. Then as if suddenly realising what he was doing Benjamin smiled awkwardly and slowly leaned back, clearing his throat unneccecarily “Well.. uhm” He clasped hands behind his back to curtail the sudden urge to either fidget or hit his own face, he could feel his ears burning “Heh, Hi”

Doctor Grey
CMO

Faye just carried on as if nothing had happened. “Khabal and I were on the holodeck when he had a bit of an accident and now has a bleeding nose. Figured we should come by.” She looked to Khabal to explain further, however he was wont to. She wasn’t entirely sure how free he was about sharing details of himself with different people.

~Faye Calloway, CIO

“I stepped into a wall.” Khabal said sheepishly.

Ben blinked at the explanation, perhaps the man didn’t fully understand that a holographic wall was as solid as a real one. Well it didn’t really matter.

There were only a few specks of blood under Khabal’s left nostril by the time they got there. There wasn’t anything else indicating that he’d taken an injury to the face.

“I assured the Commander that I would be okay but she insisted, so I followed. What procedures do you need to follow healer?”

• Khabal

Ben reached into his coat pockets only to realise he wasn’t wearing his coat. Before he could step back, the nurse walked over and handed him a tricorder. The Nurse had an amused smile on his face as he walked away. Ben frowned at the tricorder and shook his head “Apologies, I’m having an… odd day” He flicked the device open and removed the scan wand, hovering it near Khabal’s face “You’re only coming here now?” He asked before the results came in, with just a glance he could see it was a good while since the nose stopped bleeding, it even smelled odd, like there should be more blood than he could see.

Doctor Grey
CMO

“We came right away,” Faye assured him. She was watching the interaction with a great deal of curiosity. Khabal could tell her to leave and she would, but the part of her that latched onto puzzles and demanded answers really wanted to stay. Besides making sure he was okay, of course. She also wondered if that meant their picnic meal needed postponement.

~Faye Calloway, CIO

Khabal remained still during the scan, unnaturally so, only his eyes shifted to track movement.

The scan caught the last moments of an apparently natural ability to regenerate boosted by nanite technology. The nanites were reclaiming the last flecks of blood as Doctor Grey watched. The doctor’s scan could also detect metallic elements in the bones, synthetic fibers woven though Khabal’s muscles, and durable compounds in the tendons and cartilage. It could be reasonably assumed, from Khabal’s physiology, that the impact with the wall must have been considerable.

• Khabal