Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side sim - The Holo Library

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Solal Segal (Oncology and Immunology) in Side sim - The Holo Library

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side sim - The Holo Library
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Down time was, oddly, one of Solal’s least favorite things. Generally, he preferred being busy. But he hadn’t enough to do lately, and that had resulted in a lot of this dreaded down time. He found himself quite bored for most of it. This particular day, he found himself headed for the holodeck. He wasn’t sure exactly what he planned to do, but he was sure he could find something useful to do.

The half-Vulcan headed through the doors to the Holodeck, forgetting to check if anyone else was already there.

~ Lt. JG Solal, Doctor

As happenstance would have it the Holodeck was occupied and a program of a cozy library was running. Upon immediately entering one would first smell the scent of aged paper. The next thing that would catch attention was that the lighting was soft, the myriad of bookshelves in rows just past a checkout desk were bright enough to read titles when up close but not really bright enough to read the tomes themselves for any extended period. Towards the back of the library and just barely in sight from the entrance was a table with better lighting and stack of books upon it.

CSO Petrakos

Well, that wasn’t quite what Solal expected. But he could definitely live with it. “Hello?” He said as he went in, heading for the stack of books. The dim lights didn’t make much sense to him. How was one supposed to read in here without giving themselves eyestrain and a massive headache? A mistake he’d made before, for sure. He hadn’t meant to intrude on someone else’s program, but, well, now he was just curious.

~ Lt. JG Solal, Doctor

There wasn’t a response back. After entering a bit and starting down the row of bookshelves towards the table with the books on it, a man would come into view who was currently focused on a book in front of him. Whatever it was about it seemed to hold his attention firmly.

CSO Petrakos

As soon as he saw who it was, Solal recognized him from a certain tea party… He figured he wouldn’t be quite the same now. Either way, he didn’t want to disturb someone who was clearly focusing hard on whatever it was he was reading, so instead, Solal read the titles of the other books in the stack.

~ Lt JG Solal, Doctor

The titles varied a great deal. One was on the affect of dark matter on the gravitational curve of spacetime. Another was on how to fish and prepare the catch for lunch. One was about how to formally ball dance without injuring your dance partner. The subjects were seemingly random and not related to each other at all.

CSO Petrakos

Odd, but who was Solal to judge? He was usually either reading Earth history books or medical textbooks. Rarely, fictional novels. Moving a book out of the way, he accidentally pushed one off the edge of the table, which landed on the floor with a very loud Thump!

~ Lt JG Solal, Doctor

Achilleas was quite shocked at the loud noise as he head snapped up and towards the sound. The hands he was using to hold the book tightened as his forearm muscles bulged a bit, his fight or flight reaction amping him up. When he noticed the other man though he relaxed his grip and smiled at them. “Wow you gave me quite the fright. I was sure I was alone in here. I obviously got a little caught in my own world.” He said sheepishly while he waved a hand at the book in front of him.

CSO Petrakos

He jumped at the sound as well, before stooping down to pick up the fallen book. “Sorry,” Solal said quickly. “Seemed like you were focused. I was going to leave you alone.” He explained, and then added, “This library is very nice.” He set the fallen book back on the table, taking note of the title… something about rabbits, apparently.

~ Lt JG Solal, Doctor