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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“You do help.” Sisnil said firmly. “And I’m sorry. I don’t mean to remind you of your friend.” He’d gone and done it again. He set the med kits down and put his hands on her shoulders. “I like you, Dee. I like your company. You make being stuck here better.”

~ Zoi

She flinched when he touched her, but not quite as much as before. She didn’t pull away, but he knew the gesture was unfamiliar for her. “I don’t mind being reminded of Kryssa. She was the only family, the only person, I had. I miss her. Sometimes I go a day or two without missing her, and I feel guilty.” Sometimes she forgot how Kryssa smiled all the time, how happy she was. Sisnil’s personality wasn’t the same, but his understanding was. She liked being reminded of the good things.

She just wished she reminded him of good things rather than his worry.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil smiled. “Okay.” He picked the med kits back up. “Do you have more to pick up?” He asked. It was difficult to remind him of the good things. Noril was both a lot like Sisnil, and completely different. They built on each other. What Sisnil was good at, Noril was good at the opposite. Where Sisnil’s weaknesses were, were Noril’s strengths. Sisnil was a natural leader, Noril wasn’t. Sisnil was sentimental in ways Noril didn’t tend to be. But Noril had his own ways of being sentimental. Noril was often the one telling Sisnil when to cut his losses and let go.

“I have to do deck 6 too, then I’ll be done. I did the upper decks this morning,” Dradvia told him.

Sisnil nodded. “Alright, let’s go.”

Dee wasn’t like anyone on his crew. Sometimes she was, a little bit, but she was too shy. It wasn’t her fault, he knew that. What the Syndicate had done to her made her that way. Still, he liked her. He wanted to help and protect her the same way he did his crew. He just wanted her to be comfortable and happy and he wished she wouldn’t worry so much about upsetting him. He wasn’t like her old… ‘boss’. He wouldn’t hurt her. Never. “Do you think she’d want you to feel guilty for being able to move on?” He asked gently. “I know… If something happened to Noril, I couldn’t, so it’s hypocritical of me to say, but… I think she’d want you to go some days without feeling the need to think of her.”

~ Zoi

Dradvia shook her head, then looked conflicted and shook it again. “No, she wouldn’t want me to feel guilty. I think she would feel guilty too though.” She took a breath to keep from crying. “She made… she begged me not to forget her. The way she was before,” she blew out a breath, “before we were taken. I was the only person she had too, Sisnil. There is no one else to remember her. No family, no crew. Just me.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“So tell me about her sometime.” Sisnil said. “My empathy and my telepathy means I’ll be able to understand her from your point of view. We can remember her together.”

~ Zoi

They had made it to deck 6 and she started opening the first locker. She thought about it, “Okay. I… I can’t right now. Not while I’m on duty.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. “I didn’t mean now. Find me when you’re ready. Or.. or call me I guess. I forget we all have comms.” He was holding more med kits than her, intentionally. As she took out the next one, he took it. “Whatever I’m doing, I’ll be there.”

~ Zoi

She smiled slightly. “It’s odd isn’t it? Immediate contact?

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. “I mean, obviously we have comms, but older ones that go on your belt.”

~ Zoi

“These,” Dradvia tapped her badge, “do everything. They track us, they read our biometrics, they work as an UI when we are away from the ship. It’s all too easy to keep tabs or lose someone. We don’t scan automatically for bio readings anymore. We scan for the communicator code. Leave this behind and the computer thinks you are still wherever you leave it.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil raised a brow. “Good to know.” He didn’t like being constantly tracked but being able to fool the computer that easily could come in handy.

~ Zoi