It was late, as it was whenever Octavia was working her shift in sickbay. Her lessons had been going well and she was learning a lot from all the tutors even those not from a science background but other crew members too. Word had apparently gotten out what had happened both on the ship and back on Trill, she’d had visits from dignitaries and physiotherapists even a Trill ambassador but none convinced her to return to Trill she was happy here studying to become a Starfleet Officer and doing the odd night shift, and she was building friendships if only a few.

She was mostly alone, there was a night nurse who had popped out to attend to a medical issue in the holodeck and a tellurite engineer who had the bad case of the flu or at least some variant of the flu nothing they did seemed to work, she had over heard the nurses speaking and they deemed it a case of ‘the lazy bones’. Humming to herself she restocked and restacked the main supply cabinets the lights dimmer than usual as to simulate night time which she didn’t mind.

• Octavia Raain, Med Student.