Posted by Lieutenant Alexis Bonner (Assistant Chief Medical Officer) in Side Sim: Arboretum

Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side Sim: Arboretum

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Something about the way Cai spoke struck Alexis. “For humanoids perhaps. Unless you are talking about the Ziaterians of Haejo system. Their bodies have a prolonged benefit from short endorphin hits and it does them more good than other species. But in this case, Canis lupus familiaris phisiology is designed to give them prolonged endorphin hits from such simple activities.” Frigga on the other hand gave a small barking whine as if to tell Cai to throw the ball already or give it back. Her whole body was wiggling with the speed her tail was wagging.

“Intriguing notion.” He said as response and again chewed the ring in his lip. “Species dependent elements noted.”

Willow rolled her eyes shaking her head. “Lighten up will you and throw the ball.”

With a grin the boy hurled the ball a fair distance and then immediately took off after it at a break run pace. Racing Frigga to find it.

Frigga took off like a shot, when she realized Cai was running too, that made the game so much better and she shortened her pace to match his until they found the ball…

When he did find it the boy grabbed it, showed it to Frigga and then ran off in the opposite direction, harbouring it. Refusal to throw, desire to change the game up a little…Down with the establishment…that sort of thing.

Frigga tipped her head to the side as he ran off with the ball. Just like Octavia. It must be human young, this desire to change the game. Frigga didn’t care, they were still playing. She took off after him, four legs allowing her to catch up with him…and then…if Alexis had been around to see Frigga would be in so much trouble…she leapt intending to tackle him. She was a very well behaved dog though, so her mouth was closed so as to not accidently hurt him.

Cai dropped as the dog lept and rolled a few times before coming up onto his knees and launching the ball as far as he could throw it. “Go get it!” He encouraged, chest heaving as caught his breath.

Willow shook her head again. “So that was Cai.” She said as if this was both explanation and apology. “I’m not sure the botanists will be quite as forgiving of him damaging through their plants”

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“Does he like being on a star ship?” Alexis was curious, at 17 she had just graduated from the Academy and was leaving to serve on the Hathaway. She wondered how other teenagers saw it. Alexis had been eager to learn more, do more, to feed her mind. Nothing else had mattered at the time.

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Willow seemed to consider her words very carefully a moment. “Well…things are better than they had been but considering he was re-hueing the walls of his bedroom black yesterday I would say not entirely no. However, things back on Earth weren’t going too well…three schools, a few misdemeanours and an unfortunate incident where he hacked the school network, stole the math final and spray painted the answers onto the wall of the gym building the night before the exam…let’s just say I’ll take a black bed room.”

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Alexis nodded, “Compared to that I would too.” Alexis couldn’t empathize with the boy. She loved learning so the idea of going through several schools, trouble with the law, giving away test answers! “It seems like being on the ship has been a little better? I would never paint my room black, but I’d put bulkheads in place of windows.”

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“He…gets bored easily,” Willow said as if by way of explanation. “Oh goodness don’t give him any ideas.” She laughed. “I’m glad to see things settling since you managed to deal with that particularly troubling experiment we discussed.” She said. Her tone was light and conversational.

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