Ponderings

Posted on Thu Sep 9th, 2021 @ 10:25am by Ensign Olivia (Carter) Voight

Mission: MISSION 0 - History Speaks
Location: Personal Quarters
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Olivia wondered if things would ever settle down enough for her and the crew where they didn’t have to deal with so much death, injured crew, and shake ups like they have been having to deal with lately. Ever since the mission where the crew ended up in the mirror universe it hadn’t been the same for the crew on many levels. So many had transferred off for one reason or another after that mission for various reasons. Then there were the injuries and deaths that had to be dealt with and some crew members will still dealing with the horrors that they had witnessed during that mission. She hoped that at some point things would settle down long enough for her and the rest of the crew where they could get some much needed down time to recover and maybe relax a bit at the same time. It would be nice if they could get some much needed shore leave so that everyone could do some fun stuff to take their minds off of everything that had been going on lately.

Olivia moved about her quarters setting out the two photos she had printed out and put into frames. She wanted to have a couple of photos sitting about to remember the fun that she had when she was able to give her favorite little blueberry, Tayalas, a couple of baking lessons. In the photos, Tayalas was wearing the ducky apron and chef hat she had gotten for her as a special present for learning to bake cookies. Olivia missed the little blueberry and hoped to see her again one day before to a lot of time passed and the little one forgot about all here friends here on the Elysium. After deciding on a the spots she wanted to place the photos of her giving the little blueberry her baking lessons, Olivia went to finish getting ready for her duty shift.

Olivia was working one of the later duty shifts for a change this time around. Every so often it was only fair that she pick up the occasional later shifts to ensure that the others felt she was willing do her fair share of the shifts. Plus, it also gave her the chance to do a few errands before her duty shift started as well getting a few more reports completed than she would during her normal early duty shift. Also, there are times when a later shift gave her a chance to get a couple extra reports completed when things were slower for her.

Since she still had a little more time before her duty shift was due to start Olivia stretched out on her couch to do a little reading since she didn’t get to relax all that often it seemed and do some reading for pleasure. Most of the time she was always reading some sort of medical reports to stay up to date on current procedures or other files to ensure that everything was up to day for the crew. Olivia set an alarm to alert her when it was time for her to head out for her duty shift. Once the alarm was set, Olivia settle in to do a little fun reading for a change.