Posted by Lieutenant Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side-sim: Time well spent?

Posted by Captain Dira Myqian (Commanding Officer) in Side-sim: Time well spent?

Posted by Lieutenant Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in Side-sim: Time well spent?
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Achilleas smiled as he refilled Dira’s glass. In his buzzed state he didn’t fill it full but it was more than half this time. He set the bottle back down before he leaned back and took another sip. “They do both actually. The olives do get preserved and placed into jars for distribution but they also press it for olive oil.” His voice dropped to a whisper as he leaned towards Dira conspiratorially. “I brought a large jar of olives and fresh olive oil back with me on my return.”

CSO Petrakos

She grinned. “I bet that will make for a lovely meal. I don’t cook, but I do enjoy eating many different things. My father is a great cook, and I can manage a little bit, but thankfully there are replicators to save the day.” No one wanted to be subjected to anything more than the very basics of whatever she prepared outside of a survival situation.

Captain Myqian, CO

“My grandmother has taught me a few things regarding cooking.” Achilleas said as he relaxed back into the couch again. “My family’s home doesn’t have a replicator so either my grandparents and or parents cooked for the whole family. A lot of my siblings and I helped out pretty frequently when we were old enough to be helpful and not a nuisance.” He smiled at a thought. “I remember one of my first times helping out with some baking. The flour got everywhere! Haha, but my grandma was amused and very graceful about the whole thing.”

CSO Petrakos

She laughed. “It sounds familiar, but replace food with art. My father is an artist and his home was utter chaos and more often than not he just encouraged everyone to join in and add to it,” Dira said with deep apparent fondness. “And he does multimedia art, so you never knew what material would be employed that day.” It reminded her that she should check in on him again soon. He had sent a lovely message about her promotion but they hadn’t actually spoken in awhile.

Captain Myqian, CO

Achilleas chuckled and took another sip of his wine. “I’m not any good at artistic ventures but I think I’d enjoy something chaotic and random. Which my dad got mad at a few of us kids when we got into an olive fight one time in the vineyards. I mean olives are the perfect projectiles to throw at a sister who had been making faces at you all morning. But once the first olive is thrown it turns into an all out war. Our mom had to intercede or we might still be lined up listening to his lecture on not wasting the fruit of our labor.”

CSO Petrakos

She laughed as she leaned back and sipped from her glass. “I can imagine olives being not the nicest thing to be pelted with, but there were a few paint wars with the neighbourhood kids. Now that is not fun to clean up, though my father would give me a wink now and again. He was never mad, but he too did not like me wasting supplies. Then again, his definition of waste was vastly different, especially given he’s particularly fond of found materials.”

Captain Myqian, CO

“So being an only child was it the neighborhood kids that your father would invite for, like a paint workshop?” Achilleas asked curiously. He had always had siblings to pester him, confide to, and turn to for comfort so the idea of not having a sibling was strange to him. “Tending to the olives weren’t the only activities my siblings and I got to do. Quite a bit of the work could be finished in a few hours of concerted effort, so on the days that it was wonderful weather the whole family would go sailing.”

CSO Petrakos

“Oh, I don’t know that invite is quite the right word. More like we would go off scampering through the woods near his place, where I lived about 75% of the time and we’d go back to my place because it was either closest or we just had a bit more freedom there. And my father loved having all the kids about and it was easier to put us to work creatively then fight the chaos we brought.” She shook her head. “It’s a huge part of why I think my parents decided to divorce. My mother is not the chaos inviting type of person, even if she loved observing it.”

“I’ve done a lot of outdoor activities, and I love being on the water, but I’ve never been sailing. Is it something you still do?”

Captain Myqian, CO