Posted by Lieutenant Toveka Brine (Chief Science Officer) in Dead or not dead… how do you know?

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Charles Tenkiller (Chief of Security) in Dead or not dead… how do you know?

Posted by Lieutenant Toveka Brine (Chief Science Officer) in Dead or not dead… how do you know?
((Takes place the night after Toveka talks to Tenkiller’s brother’s ghost about her own father… https://www.star-fleet.com/core/stf3/outpost42/posts/94441/ (last post) ))

Toveka was awake a couple hours before Tenkiller was due to arrive for breakfast. She had been up and down all night thinking of what his brother had said. Her father wasn’t in the place of the dead. It made no sense to her, since the entire planet had blown up. She was confident enough to bet her life that no one on the planet had survived. The question then became, where had her father been when Romulus has been destroyed.

When he arrived, she would be in her uniform, except for her boots as usual. She was curled up in her chair, PaDD in hand, looking disheveled, for her, and walking a tight rope of anxiety. Two things she was certainly not known for, or used to.

Lt Toveka Brine
CSO

The chime rang and the door slid open. Tenkiller stepped in the room in a pair of blue jeans and a black t-shirt under a worn denim jacket. He smiled at her and then cocked his head to the side and the smile was replaced by a slight look of concern.

“You okay there, doll?” he asked.

Tenkiller, CoS

Toveka looked up. “My father may not be dead. Your brother told me last night.” She looked back down at the padd in her hand and shook her head with a look of complete loss on her face. “I don’t even know where to look…” her words faded off as she tossed the padd onto a nearby chair, at least conscious enough to not throw it across the room in frustration.

She’d become a scientist to find facts. To confirm facts. This made no sense to her because it went against all the facts she had known till now. She was completely out of her depth and didn’t even know why?

Toveka
CSO

Tenkiller scoweled. “Well… I have to say you are taking visons of the dead in stride. But… so if your father wasn’t on Romulus when it was destroyed… where else could he have gone?”

Tenkiller, CoS