Your Quarters are Unavailable

Posted on Wed Nov 3rd, 2021 @ 5:41pm by Lieutenant Myne Redal
Edited on on Thu Dec 23rd, 2021 @ 10:50pm

Mission: MISSION 0 - History Speaks
Location: Near Commander T'Kara's Quarters
Timeline: MD04 1100
2207 words - 4.4 OF Standard Post Measure

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Commander T'Kara arrived near her quarters to find a repair crew tearing it apart. She looked around, the typical passionless Vulcan as her things were being moved out.

"Excuse me..." T'Kara noted... "... May I ask why you are... disassembling my quarters?"

One of the repair crew stood up from the dismantled floor and approached the Vulcan. He was Human by the look of him, with a messy beard and a thick accent. "Sorry ma'am. During the scuffle with them weirdos ship's power system and the plates outside were a bit ruffled. We need you to take the stuff you care for and set it aside or put it in storage while we work. We're doing our best, but it might take us a week or so to get everything fixed. Sorry." The man shrugged apologetically and handed her a PaDD with her new cabin assignment. DECK 8 - Cabin 40 G-O.

T'Kara looked at the PADD. "This is not logical, I believe there is some kind of error. This states I am to share quarters with one Lt. JG Myne Redal." She said passionately. 'You mangy human ape... putting me with that insane trill woman!!! I should throttle you here and now. Oh yes.. this is some kind of plot by the woman. Well she is not succeeding in getting me to slip up and fail!! She's trying to undermine my logic, destroy me! Well it's not going to work.' The internal voice went off. T'Kara's boiling emotions being concealed in her logical surface.

"Sorry ma'am. Yes, you have been assigned to bunk with Lt. Redal. It shouldn't take to long, as I have said." The man said and returned to work.

In her cabin, Myne looked at the little carrier bot she used earlier to meet up with Command Sthilb. The processor fried on the way back to her cabin. What went wrong? It was dismantled on the floor and she still could not figure if it was a supercharge from the battery cell or the coollant failed. This is what happened if she used Ferengi, Trill and Starfleet tech mashed together in the same small box without extensive compatibility checks.

T'Kara pushed the door chime.

"Enter!!" Myne said not looking towards the door. "Who is also?"

"Greetings." T'Kara noted. "It appears that... my quarters are unavailable, therefore I have been assigned here to bunk with you." She handed Redal the PADD.

Looking up confused and tilting her head back in surprise, Myne accepted the PaDD and gave it a quick read. "Eh? What the heck happened to your cabin?"

"It is a temporary reassignment. My quarters will be reassembled in short order, then I will trouble you no longer." T'Kara stared at her. 'You treacherous thing, I've got my eye on you.'

Getting up and looking around and blushing, Myne coughed nervously. "Erm, yeah, sure, no problem. I..." The cabin was very spartan, actually, it didn't really look that much lived in. The bed was neatly made, on a stand next to it were ten various bits and bobs. The dresser was empty as well, a duffle bag filled with clothes was on the floor next to it.

But aside from all of that, there is nothing in the cabin to suggest that the Trill made this place her home. Aside from the various gears, electronic and mechanical components on the floor next to the bot and a crate with more and various components, the place was spotless. "Can I get you something? You can use the dresser if you want and order anything you want to eat from the replicator. As well as other things, the thing is hacked."

T'Kara put her duffel containing her clothes and uniform and a meditation rug on the floor. She quickly changed out of her uniform and into a meditation robe. "Thank you, but I will manage." She knelt down on a rug and lit a basin of incense, beginning to meditate. 'Ignore her, illogical trill. Just meditate, and do what you need to do. This will be over in a few days, T'Kara. You are logical, she is not.' The voice spoke again. 'She is not superior to you.'

"Are you sure? I can get you something to eat. Ferengi have some really tasty dishes. Should really help with meditation. I can put some music on too if you want. Ferengi opera is sublime!" Myne offered as she got back down to her bot and started to tinker with it, loudly. Metal isn't exactly silent, especially as Myne began muttering to herself.

"Super Garrett, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution below lawsuit limits,
Gonna help him put asunder,
Bad guys who don't let me loot and plunder."

T'Kara spoke. "What are you singing?" She asked. 'LAAAMMMMMEEEEE' Her internal voice noted.

"Oh?" Myne turned to show off her t-shirt with Super Garrett. "I am singing about Super Garrett, the best superhero in the whole galaxy!! You never heard of him? Wanna join our fan club?! I am even making Human like cartoons with him!!"

"Indeed." T'Kara could only say. "Does the Captain know your mocking him." Inside T'Kara was glaring at her. 'Can I kill her?!? Please?!?'

"Yes! The Captain gave me the go ahead! He's even willing to give his autograph on t-shirts to seel to raise latinum for the fan club!! You should totally join!!" Myne said excitedly.

"Computer, activate a low-level sonic dampening field around my person." T'Kara went back to meditating.

"Erm... T'Kara?" Myne asked as she reached to poke the Vulcan's shoulder. "Erm, voice commands do not work in this cabin. I kinda deactivated them, as well as the holoprojectors. This place is a bit insulated. You want me to raise a dampening field around you? Why?" The Trill asked looking very worried at her new roommate.

"I desire to meditate... Quietly." T'Kara noted. "Quietly as in without singing nor any other form of noise." She stood with her vulcan emotions boiling. 'Oh I will kill you one day!!!'

"Erm, I can try to be quiet? Like really try, though I don't do well in silence." Myne was fidgeting. "If it is too quiet, I start thinking of stuff I don't want to and bad things happen. Maybe if I go work in a corner and you take the bed to meditate?" She offered wanting to be helpful.

T'Kara approached a replicator and began to access its files. she flipped through what happened to be technologically enhanced noise cancellers and then replicated a pair of them. Returning to her meditation rug she spoke. "Very well, I will use these to ensure a quiet meditation experience this evening so you may continue with... whatever it is you do... This is essential because I have had difficulties maintaining my logic in the past. If you do not desire me to lose control of my emotions and snap your neck in a frenzy of pure unbridled emotion and illogical rage. You will understand why I need these devices and this meditation." T'Kara noted. "As you mention, there are things I don't 'do well' with as well." She knelt on the rug and placed the cancellers over her ears. They began filtering out all sound.

"You have trouble with that too?" Myne asked looking worried at the Vulcan. Approaching her she gives T'Kara tight hug before pulling back, confident on her not being able to hear her and smiled warmly. "Maybe snapping my neck wouldn't be so bad." She muttered to herself before turning to leave the Vulcan to her meditation. "It would be the least anyone could do." Sighing, she returned to her bot and began to mutter another Super Garrett song, struggling a bit to regain her composure. 'Still, why do I have the feeling she doesn't like me? Damn it Redal, this keeps happening too often.'

T'Kara took off the sonic dampeners. "I had an emotional relapse when I was a child, and again when I was fourteen years of age. I have a boiling tempest and fury of Vulcan emotion in me. Over the years, through great effort, I have maintained my Logic. I view you to be superior to me, your symbiont gives you wisdom I envy. I've pushed myself to become a starfleet officer, and to maintain my own wild emotions. I have chal'nora." T'Kara noted. "My emotions are stronger than most Vulcans. I struggle with the belief that everyone is better than me each day. Envy... That is my weakness."

Turning to look at T'Kara, the Tirll looked taken aback and stared down letting out a sad, bitter chuckle. "Is that why you always seem so upset with me?" Shuffling closer, Myne stopped to kneel in front of the Vulcan and held a hand on her stomach. "I get you more than you know. Redal gives me no wisdom and I am not your superior by any stretch of the imagination. I am the one who envies you and all Vulcans for the control you have over yourselves. Redal is a bad symbiont and every time I let my mind wonder... I can feel the past wanting to surge back in and do bad things. Have you ever... killed someone T'Kara? Have you ever taken a life?"

"Four... " T'Kara noted. "You remember when I lost control when I was fourteen. That is because my mother and father were Koh'linar Masters.. They always... rebuked me for my emotions. So did my brother and sister, who were also in Kohlinar training. I... had enough of their rebukes one day." T'Kara mentioned. "Afterwards it was determined that my family had abused me. A scandal the Kohlinar Masters attempted to cover up. But a scandal nonetheless. I view Kohlinar.. the purging of all emotions as the ultimate arrogance.. Their rebukes created.. emotional anomalies inside me.. I was abused Myne Redal. By people who thought themselves superior to me. Who knew not love not compassion. Yes.. Vulcans need love." T'Kara noted. "I apologize if I have offended, and I have opinions on the Koh'linar. Logic is a tool to control emotion, it is foolish to use it to suppress all emotion."

Reaching out to try and place a hand on the Vulcan's, Myne shook her head. "Please do not... call me Redal if you can help it. I am sorry you had to go through something as horrible as that. You have not offended me, it is just. The way you seemed to look at me, felt..." Pausing she looked away, trembling. "It felt like insubordination and a challenge. And a part of me was screaming to put a blaster to your head and fire. That is why I wanted to talk, I was scared and panicked. I am not... a good person, if anything I am a monster trying to pretend I am a sheep. Please believe me I do not feel superior to you or anyone. Honestly, when you said you could lose control and you would kill me, I felt relief."

T'Kara looked at her for a moment and then spoke. "There are ways you can control it.. And not let the monster loose. There are ways we can control it. Kneel down in front of me. And I'll teach you how to use Logic to control the beast inside you. You can take the danger of your symbiont, and turn it to something good. Are you willing?" She noted.

Shaking her head Myne shuffled back, letting go of the Vulcan's hand. "No, I am sorry. I don't have a beast. I am the best, you don't understand. I am nine beasts all rolled into one. Meditation won't do much for me. Listen, you seem like a very nice person, who's been through something very bad. I shouldn't have bothered you." Looking up Myne smiled at T'Kara, trying to seem fine and wave it all off. "My apologies, I shouldn't have shared, did not know why I did that. You know, if you want. I could go take my bot and work in my office in Operations. You should have peace and quiet then."

"No.. I will remain. We'll figure this out." T'Kara noted. "We are starfleet officers.. and I don't think you're a beast. That is most illogical."

Conflict is visible on her face, a constant battle between running away and fear on one side, as well as simply wanting to no longer be alone, to have friends on the other side. "I, erm, ok. You would say that if you knew what I knew." Myne said as she took a seat back down. "T'Kara, can I ask you something? How do you... feel about stuff? Like, about your memories and things like that?" The Trill asked nervously, not looking into the Vulcan's eyes.

"I do not know... Eventually I will ponder it. Right now... I just live." T'Kara put her noise cancellers on and began to meditate.

"Alright, I'll just be silent here. Thank you... T'Kara." Myne nodded and returned to her bot making a conscious effort in trying to work as silently as she could.

//OFF//

Commander T'Kara
Chief Science Officer
USS Elysium

Lieutenant JG Myne Redal
Assistant Chief Operations Officer
USS Elysium