Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim: Arboretum
The noise of footfall synchronised with the steady beat of her heart rate as she rounded the corridor. If she focused she liked to imagine that the hum of the ship also fell into line with the rhythm of her run but that wasn’t really likely. Still, the thought of it turned the corner of her mouth up slightly. Third shift was ending as it normally was into her early morning run. Like clockwork, NE Ecnaraeppa and NE Emit-No emerged from the turbo lift and paused in their movements as she looped around them returning their good mornings with a hand raise in acknowledgement.

She was a few paces away from the arboretum now and on a whim deviated from her normal route to enter the space. Even at this time there were people dotted here and there. She did a loop before pausing to catch her breath. Sweat stained the tips of her dark red hair at her neck, she huffed and shook out the baggy vest where it clung to her.

Willow Taylor
CO

Alexis was out running in the arboretum. She’d intended to go to the gym, run on the treadmill so she could read while she ran. Given recent events she was behind on keeping up with the latest publications. But Frigga had other ideas. She’d started whining as Alexis got up and quietly moved around. She tried not to wake Solomon up, though he was a light sleeper. She was having trouble sleeping, and needed to work on something, let her brain focus, but there was no work at the moment. Not with switching departments again. In the end she took Frigga with her, so that the pup wouldn’t wake him up after she left. So with Frigga beside her they went running in the arboretum. Dressed in loose yoga pants and a crop top shirt, her hair in a bun that was falling out from her run, Alexis set a steady pace, Frigga trotting along next to her.

Alexis didn’t particularly like running, but she did it because exercise was part of a healthy life style and she couldn’t exactly tell her patients to exercise more if she didn’t. She and Frigga ran a lap of the main path, and then still feeling edgy and her mind a blur, she started taking side paths. Frigga eventually left her to explore, coming back every few minutes. Coming back to the main path they rounded a bend and Frigga pushed into her leg and whined. Just in time to stop Alexis, since she was busy running simulations in her head, from running into Cpt. Taylor. She came to a quick stop, jogging in place a moment. “Oh…” a few deep breaths to slow her heart rate, “Good morning Cpt. Taylor.”

Bonner, AMO