Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Solal Segal (Oncology and Immunology) in Side sim: Hanging Around The Lounge (OPEN)
It was a busy evening in the lounge, Solal would prefer if it were quieter. But he simply didn’t feel like sitting alone in his quarters that evening. It reminded him of when he’d met Séan: You could’ve gone to your quarters and yet you didn’t. Because you are lonely and sad. What a frustrating conversation that had been, not that Solal would ever admit that.

And yet here he was, doing something in the lounge that he could’ve been doing in his quarters. It was annoying when Séan was right. He wasn’t even here anymore and he was being annoyingly right. Another thing Solal would never admit. He was sitting alone at a table in the middle of the room, focusing on his PaDD.

On the PaDD was a little text based game, as if out of the earth 1980’s, except instead of Oregon Trail, it would describe a medical scenario and Solal would choose what course of action to take, and then the program would say what that does, and so on. Like a training scenario or practice. Solal found it entertaining and at the same time useful. Surely the holodeck could do something similar but Solal had played the text game in medical school. It was a useful time waster that he could carry around right on the PaDD.

~ Solal

Alexis entered the lounge, Frigga at her side. She had taken her dinner break to pick Frigga up from the counseling suite before taking her to the PT gym. GALEN was a great help when Alexis was very busy with getting Frigga where she should go, but she’d been reliant a little too much on GALEN for that lately. Frigga was her responsibility, and in truth she missed spending time with her dog. The lounge was closer than her quarters, so she led Frigga there and ordered lunch for herself and kibble for Frigga. If Frigga wanted steak she would have to wait for Solomon.

She glanced around for an empty table and spotted one toward the windows. She stopped though noticing Lt Solal sitting alone. She liked the man, he was an incredible doctor and didn’t engage in idle chatter just to fill silence. But she was the AMO and she was supposed to look out for the well being of the officers in her department. She didn’t really feel she was up for the task. Besides he may not want to be interrupted. That didn’t mean she shouldn’t at least speak to him, right? Giving herself a mental shake she made her way over toward his table on the way to find a seat. “Good evening Dr Solal.”

Bonner, AMO