Setting Up a Desk or Two...

Posted on Sun Feb 27th, 2022 @ 1:11am by Staff Sergeant Leilani Charles {Kelea-Salik} & Lieutenant Myne Redal & Captain George Charles [Reece]

Mission: Season 5: Interlude: Darkness Abounds
Location: USS Elysium, various locations
Timeline: MD 3 / 1004 hours
1879 words - 3.8 OF Standard Post Measure

After George finished his administrative work for the morning, he told Tink that he had to go to the Ops department for a bit, to get a few things sorted in his quarters.

A few minutes later, he arrived at his destination and entered the offices. Not seeing anyone right away, but hearing movement, he called out. "Hello?"

"Yellow, what can I do you for sir?" Myne's voice could be heard coming from one of the offices as she peaked through the door. "If you have business with Ops, please join me in my office!!" She invited the man as she went back inside.

The Trill officer's office being quite a strange place of over a dozen monitors on the walls and two mechanical arms hanging from the ceiling. Arms that currently were sorting and filing PaDDs onto the shelves behind her desk.

George couldn't help but grin as he entered the office. "So, you are the famous Lieutenant Myne Redal. You've got quite an interesting setup here." He chuckled softly as he spoke.

Narrowing her eyes at him, Myne shook her head. "I don't know about famous, but do not believe everything you hear. I am sure they are all just mean rumors or stuff like that. So, less about me and more about what do you need captain I-don't-know-your-name. Sir. Not sure if you outrank me or not." She smiled in return as she took a seat in her chair and motioned him to take one of the other two chairs free on the other side.

George sat and grinned. "Oh, to the contrary, I've heard that you are pleasant, highly intelligent and very excited about your work. As for me, I apologize. I'm Captain George Charles, I'm sure you've seen a few requests come in here, especially since my wife, Leilani, and I adopted our son, Hendor, after that mission to New Canaan." He gave her a polite grin. "As for rank, yes, me being an O3 and you being an O2, I do outrank you. Though as I am a Marine starfighter pilot and you are the Assistant Ops Chief, I can't give you general orders. However, if you'd like, we can drop the ranks, and you can call me George?"

"Oh wow, you talk as much as I do!! I like you already and yes, flattery will get you everywhere with me!" Myne chuckled and offered a hand for him to shake. "Call me Myne then. Now let's see, Captain Goerge Charles." She repeated his name and raised a hand to smack at the two arms hanging from the ceiling. Immediately both of them began to pull three PaDDs from the shelves behind her and place them on the desk.

"Alrighty now, oh yeah. We did get three requests from you, sadly with everything going on with the ships, my admin program classified them as non critical and they were put on the back burner till we sorted out some of the more immediately urgent requests. I am so not going to read all three of them right now, so can you give me the tl:dr of your request?" Myne asked, raising her gaze to look at George.

He grinned as he replied. "Actually, the requests I put in earlier have been fulfilled. I'm here today with a new one." He paused and took a breath before continuing. "Recently, my son, Hendor, had a bad experience at school. It's a whole big issue that has been rectified, thankfully. However, as my wife and I don't wish for something similar to happen in the future, we'd like to have a desk unit installed in our quarters. Two, actually, the other is for his best friend, Skylah McBride, to use when she comes over. This way, the both of them can still receive their school lessons, albeit remotely, and not have to worry about any more issues from the school."

'They have? Score!" Myne raised her hand up and got a high five from one of the mechanical arms. "Good to know my admin program hasn't gone crazy yet and it's actually handling requests properly." She chuckled and listened to his new request. Tapping her chin she leaned back and thought about it as she picked up a custom, Starfleet kinda looking, heavily modified PaDD and began to tap on it. "Alright, seems doable. Kinda have to give us maybe three days till I get a team there to install it. Sorry to hear about your kid though. Did you talk to the teachers and stuff if they're fine with the change?"

George nodded. "That sounds reasonable. Either myself or my wife will be there when your team stops by. As for the teachers, yes, the substitute currently sitting in, until a replacement can arrive has agreed to this plan." The subject seemed to bring up a little animosity in his voice, but, it quickly went away. "Thank you, for being able to get it done so quickly, it is greatly appreciated, Myne."

"Perfect! My admin program will ping you when the team will be on their way. And no worries, that's what I am here for, to help out whenever we can or our resources allow us the chance to do it!" Myne replied with an aw-shucks kind of demeanor. "Is there anything else you need help with?"

Taking a moment to think, George shook his head. He stood and extended his hand. "Thank you for this," he gave her a friendly grin.

The young Trill accepted his handshake in a peculiar way. Instead she grabbed his wrist in a Roman salute, missing completely how Humans actually shook hands. "As I said, no worries."

As he started to leave, he paused and turned back. "Oh! There was something else. That fan club that you run, are there activities or anything for children in it?"

Myne's eyes went wide for a moment before she burst into laughter and shook her head furiously. "Oh no no no. Not for kids. Literally costs one gold pressed latinum bar per month or equivalent in other important currencies or valuables to join. It is for adults since I use the latinum to buy booze, stuff and other stuff that children might not understand or enjoy. Like... not so legal booze. But I will send you the cartoons I have been making of Super Garrett, no worries."

George chuckled and nodded. "Fair enough, thank you. I'm sure Hendor will love them. They will be the first comic books he will have ever read." That said, he said goodbye and left, so that Myne could return to her work.

===Three Days Later===

The sound of the chime rang as Myne pressed the button on the side of the door. She was alone, and her admin program had already informed the Charles family of the arrival of her team. And today by team, it meant just Myne really. She liked working alone, especially when she did not need redundancies or wasting other officers time when she could handle a task alone.

From inside, the sound of a little boy's voice could be heard. "Mama! There's someone at the door!"

“Thank you Sweetheart” Leilani quickly headed for the door. Opening it she smiled as she saw Myne outside. “You must be here to sort out the desks? Please come in.”

Nodding Myne smiled and chirped cheerfully. "Aaayep! Lt. Myne Redal, assistant to the chief of Ops. Here for two desks." With that she entered the cabin and looked around, trusty custom PaDD in one hand, while the other rested on her waist in a very handy man like pose. "So, where do ya want them ma'am?"

“Wherever you think the best area would be.” Leilani smiled. “Maybe on that wall over there?” She pointed towards a space.

"It's your quarters after all, not my place to decide where. Plus, I have terrible esthetic skills." Myne shrugged and raised her PaDD at the indicated wall. Tapping on her PaDD a couple of times and suddenly two desks were transported in, very neatly aligned to the wall. "There, done. Tell me if you want any last moment arrangements before I start activating them."

“Actually I think they look perfect, it allows us to sit out of the way whilst allowing work to be done.” Leilani smiled warmly.

"Cool. Alright then, setting it up. Name of the kids that will use these two? So I can create their accounts?" The young Trill asked as she continued to tap on her PaDD and activated both desks. "Your son and his best friend I think. Or so you husband, Captain some-name said." Myne mentioned as she looked expectantly while betraying a complete lack of ability in the skill regarding name recall.

Leilani grinned. “Our Son is Hendor and his best friend is Skylah. I’m sure they’ll be thrilled to bits with this.”

"Hendor and Skylah. Alrigthy. Gimme like, five minutes or so." Focusing on her task she started to tap on her PaDD for a while before turning to the first desk and doing the same. After verifying that everything worked and she was satisfied she repeated the procedure on the second desk. "Awesome, done. Hendor, here, press your thumb on this corner of the display to activate it. When your friend comes by make him press his tab on the same spot on his desk. It will activate and register him as the user then. Anything else ma'am?" Myne asked after she was done explaining and pointing to the upper left corner of both desks.

Hendor happily did as he was told, pressing his thumb to the screen, then hopping with happiness when it came on. "Yayyy!!" He then stopped and gave Myne a confused look. "Skylah's a girl, not a boy?"

Looking down at Hendor for a moment, Myne narrowed her eyes then smiled and nodded. "Yeah, girl, she. Totally what I said before. Must have been the echo in the room jumbling my words. Totally. I'll have to go to ops, run some sensors and check! Yeeep, totally, Skylah is such a girl's name, right?" As she blabbed on she turned her head and muttered something under her breath. "Damn Humans have weird names. Such a confusing species!" The words were well meaning, if a bit exasperated. And given Myne's lack of knowledge of all things Earth related, which was kind of known by now in Ops, this meant she'd be reading up on Human naming conventions for the next few days.

Leilani couldn’t help but grin. “Skylah is an unusual name, it’s easy to get mixed up.”

"Thank you." Myne smiled and nodded to Leilani. "Anything else you might need before I go?"

“Erm... I don’t think so” Leilani smiled. “If I think of anything I’ll let you know.”

"Awesome! Well, be seeing you and have a lovely day!" Myne waved and made her way for the door, eager to get back to her office and continue working on other projects and requests.

“Thank you!” Leilani smiled. “You too.”

"Thank you, Miss Myne!" Hendor called out from his desk.

With a nod, Myne passes through the door and waves one last time before heading back to her office.