Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Governor’s Home - TMODJ (PRISM)

Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Governor’s Home - TMODJ (PRISM)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Governor’s Home - TMODJ (PRISM)
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Eela shook her head. “It’s not mine to share,” she said softly drinking more of her tea.

After tea, and getting up with help (she was feeling her back a bit after being silly and sleeping with her brace on), Eela settled in and made the call to Iven. And then the police commissioner.

By that point Eela was physically and emotionally exhausted. She let them help her into a lying position and she turned to face Karilan, scooching over so there was more room. “You’ve been here for ages, my dear. Please don’t feel like you can’t go if you need to. But if you do stay, at least be comfortable.” In truth it would feel nice to sleep knowing tangibly that someone was there, but Eela was mindful that there was a lot going on and she didn’t want to be selfish here. Caridee was here too.

~Eela Dasca, Lt. Gov.

Karilan simply slipped off their shoes and slid in next to Eela. “Shut up and go to sleep.” they said softly and put their arms around her, pulling her close.

Karilan

With a smile on her face, Eela let her body settle in. Normally she would sleep on her stomach to take pressure on her back, but the reassurance of Karilan’s arms around her was too lovely to give up. And she hoped that maybe having someone who cared about her so deeply in such close proximity would help her mind and body find some equilibrium. She slipped her hand over for a moment to make contact with Karilan. I rather love it when you’re bossy with me.

Caridee said nothing and crept out of the room with a smile. She moved down the hall to see if Sharah was awake still, wanting to check in on the doctor who had risked a great deal to help her mother. Whether it was a sense of duty or more, Caridee knew that Fayth and Hyrushi didn’t have to have risked themselves for Eela. But they did anyway. She herself might have had the right pieces to set all this in motion, but they saved her and there were no words to truly express that gratitude. After all she and her mother had been through, she had not ben prepared for even the idea that she might lose her mother in some significant way today.

~Eela & Caridee

Sharah was sitting cross-legged on the bed with Yavia and Ilena. She was eating a small snack, and not nearly as much as Yavia would prefer. She looked up, “Dr. Sevren. Is everything alright?”

Lt. Cmdr. Fayth, SFCMO

Caridee nodded and gestured with her head down the hall. “She’s resting, finally, and her vitals are stable. I expect her neurotransmitter levels will take a day or so to fully return to baseline but they are continually moving in that direction. I just wanted to see how you were doing, and…”Dee eyed the three women and smiled softly. “And I wanted thank you all for you help. For what you were willing to risk,” she said, her last comment said as she focused on Sharah.” She pressed her hand to her heart and bowed to them in the Haliian tradition. A greeting yes, but also one given to show respect and gratitude.

~Caridee

The three women returned a similar gesture from their own culture. Ilena and Sharah being almost identical. “We are glad she is okay. We will wait about half an hour to make sure there is no relapse, then we will clear out so everyone can rest.she will be extremely sensitive until her levels return to normal. Make sure anyone who needs to know is aware.”

Lt. Cmdr. Fayth, SFCMO

Caridee nodded. “As I understand it, her team at the office have cleared her schedule for today and tomorrow, so hopefully that will be enough time, but I will let Cort know. And provided she feels comfortable with the idea, I was going to suggest she move back to her place after she’s rested.” The practical matters at the moment were easy enough to tend to, but Caridee knew all too well that she would need time to digest everything from an emotional perspective and deal with the triggered memories that all of this had brought up. She knew the mechanics of what was going on for her right now, but she could also wait it out.

“I’ll be downstairs if anyone needs me. She still has the cortical monitor on, so I can keep an eye on things while she sleeps.”

~Caridee

Sharah nodded, “You know how to read it, and we are just a comm away. Her security staff knows how to reach us as well. I would speak to Lt. Iven about when and how he feels she should return to work. Physically,” she glanced at the PaDD Ilena handed her, “she’s fine. Unless something happens.”

Lt. Cmdr. Fayth, SFCMO

She repressed the snort of laughter that wanted to come out, but the amusement played in Caridee’s pale blue eyes. “Well, she’s spoken to Iven so he knows where she is at. He can make recommendations, but can’t exactly give her orders. I think we all know my mom well enough to know that if she’s determined to work, she will find a way, even if it’s from her home office. And once her neutrotransmitters are normal and she has her mental shields, she’ll be more protected. I can’t see her laying low any longer than absolutely is necessary, given everything else going on. Eela Dasca does not do well sitting on the sidelines. If people want to convince her to take more time… good luck. Though if anyone can convince her it’ll be you or the Governor.” She knew it would come better from those she worked with that she had a close connection to. Even Caridee herself wasn’t the best one in this case, for very specific reasons the others might not anticipate. Roger would, but he didn’t even know about this all yet.

~Caridee.

Sharah shook her head. “Perhaps, but your mother knows I absolutely will not compromise when it comes to matters of health. So if I must add my own medical order to Lt Iven’s mental health recommendation I will. And Governor Hyrushi is not the sort of man to ignore something like that. Your mother knows. She has asked to always be treated the same as everyone else. I wouldn’t let anyone else get away with that behavior either. She needs to be 100% for everything that is going on right now. If she can’t see and accept that, she isn’t putting the colony before her own desires. And that is a level of selfishness I do not believe your mother is capable of.”

Lt. Cmdr. Fayth, SFCMO

Caridee leaned against the doorframe and nodded. “No, most definitely not. If anything she tends to put others before herself to the extreme. The Governor did mention though that he was going to task her with working with Ambassador Mathis. They have a rapport and a connection to Jones, so he thought it would be something meaningful she could do without being so fully in the public eye.”

She inhaled deeply and held her hands palm up before her, moving them up and down in opposition to each other. “It’s that delicate balance about giving a person something positive to focus on while not letting them use that as an excuse to ignore what they are dealing with.” She dropped her hands. “I’m an outsider here, and I can admit that I don’t fully understand how everything works, but what I do know is that a large piece of her job involves optics. It matters not what great work she is doing behind the scenes if the people of Oed think otherwise. She loses her capacity to do the work she so clearly loves if they see her as shirking her duty, or failing to live up to some expectation. Her and the Governor are held to a different standard than everyone else, whether it’s fair or not, and I think she would be devastated if she lost her credibility after all the good work she’s done thus far.”

~Caridee