Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Dasca’s Apartment - Let Us Make Mr. Melvil Dewey Proud

Posted by Civilian Karilan Massat (Owner, Quill and Parchment Books) in Dasca’s Apartment - Let Us Make Mr. Melvil Dewey Proud

Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Dasca’s Apartment - Let Us Make Mr. Melvil Dewey Proud
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“I would recommend it, yes. It will help protect whatever you place inside, and has the added plus of looking less like a hallway and more like an actual Library.” Karilan said with a smile as they took another sip. “And it would be easier to fabricate if all were similar. Saves time on the front end which is multiplied on the back end.” They chuckled softly an dthen added “And they won’t have to be dusted, so there is that.”

Massat, Owner, Quill and Parchment

She nodded as she took another sip. “I’ll still keep the more valuable books in the office though, for security reasons. Though, frankly, that’s rather laughable given that no one gets in here that isn’t supposed to be. Nature of the job and all,” she said with a grin. “Do the older and more valuable one need other considerations or would you use the same system?”

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

“We can use the same, of course. We will simply adjust size and lighting to more properly display individual pieces. And I always find setting those off the wall to be a more aesthetically pleasing way of display. Or would like all of them recessed into the wall?”

Massat

“I don’t know. Come, I think you should see what we’re working with,” Eela said, rising to her feet more slowly than earlier. She downed a healthy gulp of her tea and headed through the kitchen.

Karilan and Fen followed after Karilan downed his tea as well.

The kitchen had a hallway that passed down the narrow side of the penthouse, intersecting with the main long hallway. Between the kitchen island and the open door to what was clearly a workout room, there was another glass door that was opaque on the bottom half. Eela pressed her hand to the security pad and it beeped before the light turned green, allowing her to turn the levered handle.

Inside the modest office, like the rest of that side of the apartment, floor to ceiling windows took up much of the exterior wall. A dark wooden desk with ornately carved legs sat in the right corner facing the interior of the office. The windows were currently in a tinted state to filter the late day sun, but it cast a warm glow into the space. The floor was a laminate wood and mostly covered in a large midnight blue rug, with a green vine pattern and teal flowers. To the right of the angled desk sat a tall open shelf with a few objects of importance: a gold model of a Sovereign starship, an ornately beaded mask decorated to resemble a bird’s face, an old stone mortar and pestle, a medal in a shadow-box (which as a former Starfleet officer Karilan might recognize as the Christopher Pike Medal of Valour) and sitting on the lower shelf was the climate controlled box with her grandmother’s book that Karilan had given her, just waiting for it’s more permanent home.

Eela stood in the middle of the mostly empty office and sighed. “So I have a dilemma. I was desperately trying to keep my work at work and not bring it home too often, knowing that once I did, the lines between my work and personal lives would bleed together. Well.. that was fine for a time, but I’ve been putting in such long hours that by the time I get home, it’s late. And it’s starting to be everyday lately. So, I think I’m going t have to give in and make this space a proper work space that I actually work in. But I want it to feel cozy and that’s why I want it to be partly a library as well. We have lots of wall space, but these ones I don’t think you can recess the shelves. I don’t mind losing space to the shelves though, but I was thinking of maybe a nice arm chair that I could take breaks and read in, and then when I’m done work for the night I can just stumble into bed rather than have to pack up everything, and come home before I unwind. What do you think?”

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

Karilan looked at the space for a long moment, turning and looking, looking and turning. A slow smile spread across their face as they began to see something. “I have an idea… but I will say it is one of my more eclectic ones. So bare with me, and if you hate it, we can do something more traditional.” He took the PaDD and began sketching. It took longer this time, but when they finished they handed Eela tha PaDD with a hesitant smile.

Ever patient with the creative process, she took the PADD and studied it.

The room was rendered quite well. But the most noticeable change was the windows. They were still present, but now they were floor to ceiling transparent bookcases with a rolling ladder and track to get to the higher shelves. There were small cubes around the room on the walls, also transparent, where pieces of importance were singled out and displayed. And where the rug was, was a spiral staircase going into the floor and a cozy reading nook with an overstuffed loveseat and low table. “We can install a sliding cover over the stairs so you can walk uninterrupted around the room. Transparent aluminum so no danger of a break and the nook is still visible.”

Massat, Owner, Quill and Parchment Book

Dasca gazed at Karilan, her eyes wide and her smile wider. “This is very unexpected but I love it.” For a moment she looked around the room, trying to envision it as they had so expertly designed. “It’s definitely more of a renovation than I was expecting and that will have some drawbacks.” She wasn’t even sure what the clearance below her one-level apartment was before the next. She knew it was different being the top floor and set to be more secure in the first place. “But if I’m going to have a proper space, I might as well get what I want. And I don’t plan on going anywhere any time soon either. How long do you think something like this would take?” It was going to mean work crews that needed to be cleared by security and a whole host of security issues she likely hadn’t thought of but her team will no doubt remind her of later.

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

Karilan thought for a moment and then said “I believe we could get it done in three to four days. A week at the most. The most difficult part will be the floor, and we will do that first. We will ensure we have all the needed materials and permits first. That will take only a few days. All in all, I believe we could be done by the end of next week if that is acceptable to you.”

Massat, Owner, Parchment and Quill