0500 hours. She woke as she always woke without any alarm or stimulus. She rose without waking her mate. For her size she had a light step. She prepared food for both of them but put his in the warmer till he finally woke up. He of course just as easily prepare his own but she enjoyed pampering him. She added sour pickles to her breakfast. One of her coworkers had suggested it and somehow it pleased her to eat them.
0530 She was stepping out of the sonic shower and headed for the gym. Dropping to all fours she roamed the corridors at a brisk jog doing several laps of the habitation deck before taking the turbolift. Doing several laps of the recreation deck and finally entering the Gym.
0600 she did what was for her a light workout till
0730 Workout complete she used the water shower to clean of sweat and apply scents to her fur. Did a heavy grooming and changed into her Uniform.
0800 exactly she arrived at engineering checked in and consulted the priority duty tasks. She claimed four of these tasks suited for he material fabrication and replicator repair specializations.
10:00 she took a break and a snack. Opting for just the pickles this time.
10:15 She headed back to Engineering to claim additional tasks having competed the four tasks already. These tasks were outside of her specialities and she enjoyed them less but a Engineer could not afford to let any system be unfamiliar . She took two of these tasks as doing them took longer and sometimes required refrencing technical manuals
12:00 Break for lunch. She ate in a secluded corner away from others as her raw meat diet often disturbed more timid crew members and she had been unusually irritable for a while now. She was controling her temper without the holosim combat program but she just didn’t want to be near people lately even her mate was annoying to her. But she also missed them when they were seperated.
13:00 Back to work. Monitoring reactors and the warp systems till end of official shift. This was when she had to deal with people regularly and by shift end the fur on the back of her neck stood on end. She was sounding strained and to her ear harsh of tone. So when shift ended she clocked out and went home. Normally she worked another half shift doing low priority tasks but today she just wanted to leave. She had worked through her normal brak to avoid her coworkers.
17;00 M’Nalie was done dealing with people she didn’t even do her laps but just headed into her and her mates quarters. There she showered again in the sonic shower and ended up making a den for herself in the bedroom out of cushions and blankets and hid in it. Both M’Nalie and her mate realised the meaning of the den when he finally got home.
She was pregnant.

Ensign M’Nalie Eshenti. Engineering.