Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in Too Often to be Coincidence

Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in Too Often to be Coincidence

Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in Too Often to be Coincidence
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“Still nothing to do? I’m sorry. Not much to do here either.” Dradvia stacked her things to return them. “I will. Though I’m not sure what I might need.” She stood, “Thanks, Sisnil.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil smiled. “No problem.” He said, and then he headed out. That night, he wandered the halls. That doctor, Tessan, had given him a sleep aid, but he was uncomfortable using it. So, like nights previous, he wandered around the ship.

~ Zoi

Dradvia slept, but it wasn’t a very healing sleep or very long. Eventually, she stopped trying and decided to read. She couldn’t stand being in her quarters aline though. So she headed out, to the lounge, to read, near people. She ended up wandering a bit first.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil was sitting by a computer terminal with a PaDD, fiddling with it. There was a cable plugging the PaDD into an access panel under the terminal. He was in a secluded corner, no one else around. He didn’t hear Dradvia coming, he was so into what he was doing.

~ Zoi

Dradvia stopped, watching. Disappointment filled her, even as she told herself not to jump to conclusions. He might have finally been assigned some work. She hoped.

“What are you doing?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil jumped and looked up. Then felt her disappointment. He looked a little guilty. “Hey, Dee…” He smiled sheepishly. “Keep a secret? I’m setting up a way to contact my crew without giving them away.”
~ Zoi

She didn’t blame him for wanting to contact his brother. She didn’t, and she knew he would have to make sure it wasn’t traced, to protect them and himself. She wanted to believe it was that simple, but her duty… It was all she had really. “I can’t do that.” She was torn, “I don’t know what you’re telling them.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Nothing harmful.” He promised. “You tell, they lock me out, maybe put me under extra surveillance, I never get to contact anyone.” He could feel the conflict in her. “I’m sorry.” He jerked his head down the hall. “Do your job.” He was giving her permission.

~ Zoi

She walked closer and knelt down. “Sisnil, please stop.” She worked hard to sound calm but inside she desperately needed him to stop what he was doing. “Listen, you told me this,” she waved at the computer equipment, “is your specialty. Don’t you think they know that? That they are watching everything you do and where you go? Who you talk to? I know you miss your brother and your crew. I understand wanting to do anything to reach them. I wish I had one more chance to talk to Kryssa.”

Sisnil stopped what he was doing and set the PaDD down. He looked up at Dradvia as she spoke.

“Don’t put them at risk. I don’t know what promises were made, hinted at, or hedge around. I don’t want you to lose any chance at reaching them.”

Sisnil glanced at the PaDD and then back at her. Morris had promised to help him find a way. He didn’t trust Morris. For the same reason Dradvia had been conflicted, Morris couldn’t be trusted.

“What if the Syndicate is looking for you? What if they are watching your brother. If you contact him and he doesn’t report it, they will punish him and the rest of the crew. Please stop.” She didn’t want to turn him in, but she would have to. She was worried what would happen to him.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil hesitated. “I have to…” He said softly, but made no moves. She was legitimately worried, so much so he imagined she must feel sick. She was worried what the Syndicate might do to him, to Noril. He sighed and reached into the access panel and pulled the cable. Then closed it up and turned off the PaDD. He looked really upset. “I have to find a way, Dee. Have to.”

~ Zoi

The way he shortened her name seemes to tie them together. She understood the desperation he felt. He was a captive just as surely as she had been. His prison was just nicer. “Okay. We’ll find a way. Just not like this. Not in a way that puts everyone at risk.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

He nodded and picked up the PaDD and data cable and hugged them to himself. “I need him,” he whispered softly.

~ Zoi

She understood, a little, and she felt for him. “I know. He needs you too. So let’s find a way that makes sure you are both safe when that happens.” She stood slowly. She didn’t quite reach to touch his arm. “Come on.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil stood with her, still hugging the PaDD and looking at the floor. He looked like he was trying not to cry.

~ Zoi

“Hey,” she ducked her head to look at him. “It’s okay to lonely and unsure.” She wouldn’t attribute fear to him. “You just have to keep going until it gets figured out.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“No, it isn’t. That’s how you get distracted and indecisive. Those get you dead.” Sisnil said, voice sad but hard. His crew would tell her he was reassuring, strong. When they were afraid, he let them be. But he and Noril only confided such things in each other.

~ Zoi